COBOL Web Services

• You can use the Interface Mapping Toolkit to map the call interface onto a Web Services interface, and to create a WSDL file. You deploy the Web service under Server Enterprise Edition.

  This approach is documented in the chapter COBOL Web Services with the Interface Mapping Toolkit. Also see the book Interface Mapping Tutorials.

• You can use the Interface Mapping Toolkit to deploy the program as a COM object, and then use the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit to extract the call interface and create a WSDL file from it. You deploy the COM object under Server Enterprise Edition.

  This approach is documented in the chapter COBOL Web Services with the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit. You can download the SOAP Toolkit from the Microsoft Web site.

• You can use toolkits based on Java. There is a variety of toolkits available (for example, the IBM Web Services Toolkit) that enable Java applications to call Web services, as well as exposing Java classes as Web services. By using the support included in Micro Focus COBOL for interoperability with Java, you can use these toolkits from COBOL.

  No documentation for this approach is provided here. For COBOL/Java interoperability, see the chapter Using Java and COBOL Together.

For a comparison of the advantages of the different methods, see the chapter Application Extension with Distributed Computing .