Note:Enterprise Developerfor Eclipse supports
JVM COBOL. To develop applications for
.NET COBOL, install one of our
Enterprise Developerfor Visual Studio products.
Native COBOL compared with JVM COBOL Native COBOL and JVM COBOL differ in how they compile and how the run-time management services, such as security, threading and memory management are
provided.
Moving Native COBOL Applications to JVM COBOL JVM COBOL code provides features that enable you to extend and modernize your existing procedural COBOL applications without having
to rewrite them.
Using a File Handler in JVM COBOL File handling operations within JVM COBOL applications can be performed using the native Micro Focus File Handler or using
the Managed File Handler.
Multiple user COBOL applications in Java In a multiple user environment, COBOL applications must use multiple run units, with each instance of the application running
in its own run unit.