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Micro Focus Studio™ for COBOL Developers

Micro Focus Studio™ for COBOL Developers

Micro Focus Studio™ for COBOL Developers combines Micro Focus Net Express® and Micro Focus Server Express™ into a single package providing a powerful and productive cross-platform development environment for creating and extending COBOL applications to Windows, UNIX and Linux.   Direct COBOL Web services capability, J2EE connectivity and XML support allows easy integration of existing and new COBOL applications with leading enterprise technologies.  Micro Focus Studio for COBOL Developers can be upgraded to include Net Express with .NET, adding the ability to create managed and verifiable code COBOL applications for deployment into the .NET Framework.

Micro Focus Studio™ for COBOL Developers provides a complete environment for quickly building and modernizing COBOL enterprise components and business applications.

 Product Datasheet

Highlights

  • Creates modern COBOL applications while reusing exisiting code
  • Exposes existing COBOL business processes as Web services
  • Leverages COBOL applications in a J2EE-compliant manner from a Java applications server such as IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Oracle Application Server and Jboss.
  • Shares data across disparate applications with XML. 
  • Builds contemporary Graphical and Web user interfaces in COBOL
  • Creates Managed and Verifiable COBOL applications integrated within the .NET Framework 
  • Takes advantage of a highly-productive development environment.                

Benefits

  • Extends core business assets to the internet and new business channels
  • Integrates COBOL applications with .NET and J2EE
  • Leverages COBOL business processes as services in an SOA 
  • Cuts the time taken to build, extend and maintain applications. 
  • Facilitates B2B and B2C transactions using XML.