First you need to create a project to contain the procedural COBOL program, and make it available for execution from a Java program:
- Launch an instance of
Enterprise Developer
for Eclipse.
- When prompted for the workspace name, type the name of a folder into which you wish to store the tutorial project (for example,
C:\projects (Windows) or
~/projects/ (UNIX)).
- If you are presented with the Welcome tab, click
Open Team Developer Perspective.
- Click
.
- Expand
Micro Focus COBOL.
- Click
COBOL JVM Project.
- Click
Next.
This opens the
New COBOL JVM Project dialog box.
- Click
.
This opens the
New COBOL JVM Project dialog box.
- Type
CobolBook in the
Project name field.
- Ensure that
Use default location is checked, and that
Use default JRE in
JRE group is selected.
- Click
Finish.
This creates a JVM COBOL project to contain the sample procedural COBOL program that you will import into the Web application later in this tutorial.
Specifying a Java package
By default, COBOL programs are placed in the default root Java package. JVM servlet containers do not always allow root package classes to be loaded, so you must set up a package for the program.
Note: The Java package system is equivalent to the JVM COBOL namespace system; these two terms are interchangeable.
To set up the package:
- In Team Developer Tree view, right-click the CobolBook project, and click
.
This opens the
New COBOL JVM Package dialog box.
- Type
com.microfocus.book in the
Name field. Click
Finish to create the package.
This process creates a folder structure in the workspace, in which to store the COBOL program, and informs Java where to find it. You are now ready to set up the COBOL program.
