LANSA Composer includes Altova MapForce, a powerful visual mapping tool, for defining these transformations. The Transformation Maps created with the visual mapping tool can be directly integrated into your business processes along with transport and other activities.
Here's how LANSA Composer and Altova MapForce combine to define and use Transformation Map:
- When you edit your Transformation Maps, LANSA Composer will start MapForce to provide the visual mapping tools. You use the tools in MapForce to visually define source and target components and connections between the data items in each.
- When you prepare your Transformation Maps, LANSA Composer silently and invisibly invokes MapForce to generate the executable form of the map, and then LANSA Composer deploys it to the LANSA Composer server, ready for use.
- When a Processing Sequence executes your Transformation Maps, it simply invokes the generated executable form of the map.
For more information about the executable form of a Transformation Map, refer to:
Transformation Map Executable Files
Note: LANSA Composer uses only specific MapForce functionality and user interface options. For more information, please refer to Supported Functionality of the Mapping Tool. Should you use an unsupported function, Transformation Map definitions that make use of these functions may not prepare successfully or may not integrate correctly with LANSA Composer.