Micro Focus Visual COBOL 3.0 for Eclipse (Windows) > Deployment > Deploying COBOL Applications > Deploying JVM Applications

Deploying JVM Applications

JVM application are a collection of classes (.class files).

COBOL JVM applications that do not use an application server

Compile your JVM COBOL application to .class files. Optionally, package these to a .jar file (using the jar command). Ship with COBOL Server (requires a license).

COBOL JVM applications that run on an application server

You can deploy JVM COBOL applications to an application server such as JBoss, WebSphere or Tomcat.

The applications could include only JVM COBOL code or could be a mixture of JVM COBOL and Java Code. They could use EJBs or Web services - e.g. managed REST, WSDL.

In order to deploy, you need to:

Package the application as either a .jar, .ear, or a .war file.
Deploy the file to the application server according to the server's requirements.
You also need to deploy the Micro Focus managed run-time, mfcobolrts.jar. You can do this either separately or in the application's .ear or war file. See Java Calling JVM COBOL.

You do not need to ship COBOL Server in this case.