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A closer look at Language Environment

Application programming on z/OS

The language-specific portions of Language Environment® provide language interfaces and specific services that are supported for each individual language, and that can be called through a common callable interface.

In this section we discuss some of these interfaces and services in more detail.

Figure 1 shows a common runtime environment established through Language Environment.

Figure 1. Language Environment's common runtime environment
Language Environment's common runtime environment
The Language Environment architecture is built from models for the following:
  • Program management
  • Condition handling
  • Message services
  • Storage management.




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