COBOL Articles

Application Servers and COBOL enabling legacy applications for Web Services.

Enterprise JavaBean Guide illustrating the creation of Server and Client Enterprise Java Beans in COBOL syntax. (Samples Available).

Future of COBOL  There is a long future ahead for COBOL.  Business process logic can be clearly expressed using COBOL syntax, and if we look "under the hood" in most of the world's top businesses, we see that COBOL applications are at the center.   This article is an overview discussing the future of COBOL.Application Servers and COBOL Enable COBOL applications for Web Services the business initiative.

Web-enabling COBOL   Being "Enterprise Enabled" really means that the entire enterprise is connected.  COBOL is the heart and soul of most of the world's business and to "Web-enable" the enterprise involves being able to connect COBOL to the entire enterprise (including the web).  This is an overview discussing web-enabling COBOL.

Remember Cobol? If You Don't, Get Reacquainted  An brief review of the importance of COBOL by William M. Ulrich (May 21, 2001)

Moving COBOL applications to the Web  A technical review by James Borck, InfoWorld (August 11, 2000) -- This article is a technical review of the PERCobol and Merant's NetExpress and how these solutions enable moving legacy COBOL applications to the web. "These new solutions wrap Cobol code in Java, allowing interoperation and exposing only the necessary business logic to Web processes. In doing so, they allow you to quickly encapsulate and migrate your legacy applications. It's an approach that not only capitalizes on your past mainframe investments through the reuse of tried-and-true code, but also speeds up development cycles and generates distributed applications that can be deployed anywhere -- thereby extending your software to multithreaded, client/server architectures across multiple platforms and the Internet."

Legacy Systems: Reinvest Or Restructure? Information Week Article by Martin J. Garvey (August 9, 1999) -- This article discusses the value of legacy systems.  "Make no mistake: Legacy doesn't necessarily mean old-fashioned. The mainframe and midrange servers at many companies may well be state-of-the-art in their class, thanks to regular upgrades and maintenance and new installations"...  "Few companies do a wholesale replacement of their legacy systems. Instead, they move key pieces of their architectures onto open platforms--even if they'd prefer to keep those pieces where they are".

COBOL Experts: Life After Y2K Article by By James E. Gaskin, Inter@ctive Week (January 20, 2000) -- This article discusses the demand for COBOL  with e-business integration; saying that "companies may be well-advised to keep their COBOL programmers, who often have specific business knowledge not duplicated elsewhere in the company".    "Companies can reduce their time to market by keeping their expertise in-house and reduce their risk by using proven COBOL applications."

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