Execution Cycles: How Lawson Portal Renders Data to the User

This section describes the technical processes Lawson Portal invokes when it transforms data in order to render it the user.

The diagrams and accompanying tables that follow show the process of transforming XML content to HTML for viewing in the browser.

Step	What is happening
1	A user running a browser in a client makes a request for a Lawson form.
2	Lawson Portal reads the request and sends it to IOS on the Lawson server via HTTP.
3	The Xpress servlet locates the appropriate XML form definition file and sends it to the XSLT engine.
4	The XSLT engine invokes the appropriate XSL style sheet.
5	The XSLT engine reads the style sheet and creates the specifications for the HTML document.
6	Lawson Portal displays an HTML version of the content in the user's browser.