16 2 2 Types of LANSA Applications

16.2.2 Types of LANSA Applications

• The Universal Model, described in the Visual LANSA Developer's Guide is NOT recommended when working with Unicode data. It does not support display of Nchar fields – these must be copied to Alpha fields and that means data loss if the data is not all in the current code page.

• The best choices for working with Unicode data because they allow data from different languages to be displayed and edited in the same form or webpage are:

• the Windows Optimized Model described in the Visual LANSA Developer's Guideand

• the Web Application Modules described in the Web Application Modules (WAM) Guide are

• The Visual LANSA Framework is an optional extension to LANSA which provides an application framework for designers and developers. A key benefit of the Framework is that from a single application model it supports deployment to Windows Rich Client, Web Browser, or Microsoft .NET.

Also See

16.1 Unicode Support in LANSA

Creating LANSA Applications in the Visual LANSA Developer's Guide

Visual LANSA Framework Guide

Ý 16.2 Developing New Applications with Unicode