2.1.1 LANSA Application Characteristics
LANSA is best described as follows:
- LANSA is an integrated family of highly productive design, development and maintenance products for multi-platform host and network applications.
Described another way:
- LANSA allows you to design and build a business application which you can execute on multiple platforms in a host or network mode.
The key words to remember in the LANSA definition are:
- integrated family LANSA is a family of products which have been built to work together. LANSA allows you to share and reuse application information.
- multi-platform
LANSA supports the IBM i, Windows, and other platforms. When you develop with LANSA, you are platform independent.
- network
LANSA supports many different modes of processing for a network framework including client/server and Web-based distributed processing.
Understanding the importance of these characteristics will help you to understand the LANSA Architecture , structure of the LANSA product family, and the types of application that can be created.