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Visual
LANSA offers breakthrough application
modernization, extension and integration
capabilities for IT development teams and
software vendors on multiple platforms,
including the IBM eServer®
iSeries.
Visual LANSA is a powerful suite of application
development and integration products that
enables mid-sized organizations to overcome the
complexity inherent in delivering tomorrow's
applications. This release offers:
- Enhanced and Extended Rapid Application
Development Capability
- Out-of-the-Box Support for Web Services
- One-click Device Support
- Any-to-Any Integration
- A Broad Array of Solution Options for
Customers
What makes this unique from other offerings
in the marketplace is that current IT staff can
easily master Visual LANSA to:
- Assemble Composite Applications from
Existing Systems and Databases
- Deploy to a Browser or Client/Server
n-Tier Solution
- Run on their Platform of Choice
| According to AMR Research's Eric
Austvold, in his 2005 outlook for
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA),
"Since no CIO can start with a
clean slate and replace the existing
infrastructure, architectures, or
applications, this new era of
architecture calls for an
evolutionary approach to leverage
existing assets through the building
of composite applications on top of
a service oriented architecture." |
LANSA is Highly Productive
Productivity is LANSA's most fundamental
value proposition. Focusing on and improving
commercial application development and
implementation productivity — rather than on
technology — is what most strongly
differentiates LANSA from other development
tools.
- Insulate yourself from the increasing
complexity of "me-too" application
development tools.
- Develop and maintain better quality
applications faster and for significantly
less cost.
- Simplify integration with other
applications, wherever they are, using
out-of-the-box middleware.
- Easily change and modernize the UI layer
without changing the business logic.
- Insure yourself against future
technology change.
Rapid Application Development and
Productivity
Visual LANSA provides a comprehensive
Windows-based development environment. You can
deploy applications to many platforms including
Windows, iSeries, UNIX, Linux and Wireless
devices.
The modernized IDE (Integrated Development
Environment) provides developers with the
capability to:
- Design
- Develop
- Debug
- Deploy applications to multiple
platforms
Developers using this workbench are
demonstrably more productive than those using
5250 screens for development.
The Visual LANSA Framework provides the
necessary business infrastructure and security
for 5250 developers to rapidly prototype,
develop and implement Windows and browser
applications from a single application module.
The framework prototype translates into the
end-user application using the XML-based snap-in
architecture. This architecture leads to a
tremendous reduction in application maintenance
and the short learning curve substantially
reduces your start-up costs.
Visual LANSA frees developers from the
constraints and limitations that have previously
been associated with RPG applications on the
iSeries, as the suite supports the entire range
of standard SQL data types. LANSA developers can
devote their efforts to capturing and
implementing business rules, without concern for
the complexities of the deployment platform.
LANSA-generated applications can be deployed to
and fully exploit the use of multiple platforms
(iSeries, Windows, UNIX and Linux) and multiple
databases running on those platforms.
Web Services
Visual LANSA introduces Web Application Module
or WAMs. WAMs are a component-based Web
technology that use XML/XSL technology and offer
the ability to deliver content in multiple
formats such as HTML, WML, or XML from a single
WAM component.
The WAM architecture separates business logic
from presentation so you can expose WAMs as Web
services with a single click. This architecture
also allows WAMs to interoperate with .NET or
Java applications.
In addition, LANSA Integrator empowers
developers to use Java services seamlessly in
their applications, including vastly simplified
access to and implementation of Web Services
from LANSA and 3GL programs alike.
Visual LANSA provides a structure consistent
with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
principles. Visual LANSA support for Web services
and integration helps developers get started
without having to become experts in a myriad of
protocols.
One-click Device Support
Using a single development methodology,
developers can build applications that may be
deployed with a single click for Web Services or
any browser-capable devices such as Palm, Pocket
PC and WAP-enabled phones. Because the business
logic is separated from presentation,
applications built today using WAMs will be
capable of delivering their user interface using
tomorrow's presentation technologies — without
impact on the business logic.
Any-to-Any Integration
Visual LANSA enables developers to quickly
build A2A and B2B applications using either RPG
or LANSA. Built-in support for multiple
transport protocols (HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SMS, SOAP)
and multiple data formats (EDI. DSV, XLS, etc.)
helps automate the creation of Zip files and PDF
files and the conversion of iSeries spool files
to PDF documents. An integration studio now lets
developers administer, configure, debug and
deploy applications for integration with
disparate systems inside and outside your
organization.
Single Skill Set
Through a single skill set, Visual LANSA
provides an exceptional path for RPG developers
to become successful in delivering tomorrow's
applications.
Visual LANSA developers use LANSA's
platform-independent Object Repository and
high-level RDML language to develop 5250,
Web-browser and Windows rich client programs.
Through a single skill set, Visual LANSA provides
an exceptional path for RPG developers to become successful in delivering tomorrow's
applications.
With Visual LANSA, this is easier and more
powerful than ever before. Using WAMs you can
substantially reduce the learning curve and cost
of developing Web browser applications.
Developers with 5250 green screen backgrounds
can now quickly and easily learn how to produce
sophisticated Web browser-based applications. A
complete WYSIWYG form painter is included.
WAMs provides developers with gentler
learning curves and a lower development cost to
produce browser-based commercial applications.
Green-screen developers can quickly learn to
produce sophisticated n-tier Web applications
using the WYSIWYG painter's drag-and-drop
capabilities, while using the same high-level
RDML language to implement the business rules
and processes.
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