6.7 A Few Things You Need to Know
This section outlines some basic information about LANSA functions and components.
Visual LANSA Is Now Used to Create Two Kinds of Applications
You can now create both LANSA functions (Universal UI) and Windows-optimized Visual LANSA applications.
LANSA functions and components share:
- Fields
- Files
- Most RDML commands
- The editor (a graphical development environment) in which you edit functions, forms and other components.
You Create Functions and Processes Exactly as Before
There is no change to how you create processes and functions:
- You use the editor to create functions just like before. No new commands, nothing has changed.
Component Applications are Created as Forms
Applications are created as forms (in the same way as Universal UI applications are created as functions). When you want to create a new application, you create a form. When you want to change the application, you edit the form. There are no processes in Visual LANSA.