LANSA Composer is a design and execution platform for integrating business activities involving transport and transformation of data along with custom business processing. This guide describes the features and functions of LANSA Composer and is designed to get you started with the LANSA Composer software as quickly as possible.
This guide is intended for use by business analysts who will use the application to design and implement solutions to business integration problems.
You will need to know some of the basic structures and windows of Composer before you begin. Please review Getting Started with LANSA Composer which includes a Quick Tour and Functional Components for an overview of LANSA Composer's components.
Sample configurations for supported transport protocols have been provided. You only need to refer to the description and specifications of the protocol that you will be using, and these are described in Configurations.
LANSA Composer is supplied with a number of Activities that will perform transport, file management and other common business integration functions for you. Refer to Activities for details.
Should you wish to develop some custom activities, you will find notes on how to do this in Develop Custom Activities for LANSA Composer.
The text in this guide is available while using the LANSA Composer design environment by selecting the Help command from the Help menu on the LANSA Composer main window or by pressing F1.
The LANSA Integrator Guide provides more in-depth technical information on the LANSA Integrator services that are used by many of the supplied LANSA Composer activities or that you may use in your own custom activities.