Technical Articles
These technical articles were originally published in the Architects Corner section of our customer magazine, the LANSA Review. The articles are written by key LANSA staff and cover development strategies and new product trends.
Leveraging Microsoft .NET technologies with LANSA
LANSA has long used Microsoft's core technologies to drive
advances in its application development and integration tools, so an obvious
question to ask is, "What is LANSA doing about leveraging .NET?" LANSA is
advancing its tools along the .NET 'evolutionary tree' on several fronts.
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Business Integration and SOA
LANSA Composer: Code-free Business Process Integration
LANSA Composer brings the power of BPI technology to
enterprises that want to automate and integrate business processes with external
trading partners or between internal applications. LANSA Composer is a highly
visual environment for designers and business analysts rather than developers,
which provides a simple way for non-programmers to make use of core LANSA
Integrator services.
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Implementing SOAP Web Services with LANSA Integrator
This is a brief outline of how to implement Web services using
LANSA Integrator. Web services are just one of the many "Java services" you can
rapidly integrate into your System i, Windows or UNIX business applications with
LANSA Integrator.
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LANSA Integrator Remote Function Invocation
LANSA Integrator Remote Function Invocation (RFI) is
middleware that makes remote integration as easy as coding with local objects.
The Java client developer creates and works with local objects and then sends
these objects to the remote LANSA Java Service Manager (JSM) server, the remote
service uses a local copy of these objects to supply data to the host program.
The host program can also create new objects and return a copy to the Java
client program for local processing.
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The Challenge of Interconnecting Business Networks
A2A, B2B, Web Services, Dynamic Data Interchange and Supplier
Enablement are the latest industry buzzwords. Although they sound dissimilar,
they are all really terms for dynamic transaction exchange, between trading
partners, using Internet technologies such as XML and HTTP.
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Extending User Interfaces with LANSA Integrator
In this second article on LANSA's Java Services Framework, we
discuss three different ways of using LANSA Integrator to expand the user
interface possibilities of your applications. Firstly, we examine the new ‘Order
Upload' feature in Commerce Edition Version 3 to show how an existing Web
application user interface can be enhanced with LANSA Integrator.
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Application Modernization
Rapid Windows and Web Development with Visual LANSA Framework
The Visual LANSA Framework is a design framework that empowers
your business focused developers to create highly graphical Windows and Web
applications. The learning curve is short, productivity is high and the
applications are world class. Until now, many developers have found Windows
development complex and hard to deploy. Many of you have told us that you find
it difficult to migrate your existing 5250 applications to Windows or the Web
successfully.
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Stepping up to LANSA Version 11 Modernize at your own pace
We have laid out five simple steps that chart a course for a
staged and controlled adoption of LANSA Version 11. Each step details the
benefits you will gain, things you need to know and other supporting materials
to ensure you get the most out of Version 11. Obviously, the first step is to
install LANSA Version 11, but you do not have to complete all the steps or use
all the new features and techniques.
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LANSA Repository Based Architecture
The Evolving LANSA Repository
It is now 15 years, and more than 6,500 customers, since LANSA
began empowering organizations with leading-edge technologies to automate their
business processes. LANSA has consistently delivered a short learning curve,
high productivity, easy maintainability and solid protection of customer
investment in existing applications. In this Architects Corner, we celebrate
LANSA's first 15 years with a technical review of LANSA milestones.
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LANSA and Current Modeler Strategies
Emerging trends are creating a dramatic increase in the use of
modeling tools. This contrasts with the impression of modelers many experienced
IT professionals gained from over-ambitious Enterprise Modeling projects during
the era of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) in late '80s. Then,
modeling often took a long time and produced little or no Return On Investment.
Today's modeling approach is different, producing much better returns.
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