Infor XA is commercial

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used to control the operations of manufacturing companies. Its prior name, MAPICS, is an acronym for Manufacturing, Accounting and Production Information Control Systems. MAPICS was created by

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. The product is now owned by Infor Global Solutions. Originally all MAPICS code ran only on

midrange systems like the IBM System 34, 36, 38, and the

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, via succeeding versions of the platform - currently

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. Early versions were written in IBM RPG, augmented with

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programs. IBM's version of

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is also utilized on the OS integrated

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system called Db2 for i . Recent development efforts have added object oriented components written in the Java programming language, which extends a portion of the XA product to servers running

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. However, the Infor XA product still requires the IBM i operating system. The Java components provide an application runtime which allow user customizations, a rich user interface, an optional web-based interface as well as support for

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interfaces.

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