This tutorial walks you through the steps required to compile and package your JVM COBOL applications as JAR files. The benefit of this is that applications can easily be deployed both locally and remotely.
The following tutorial is going to utilize the two projects created during the tutorial Compiling a COBOL Program to JVM Byte Code, in which a Java project has a project dependency on a JVM COBOL project during run time; therefore, you must run that tutorial to completion before attempting this one.
In this tutorial, you will reconfigure the dependency between the two projects, so that the COBOL JVM project is exposed to a Java project as a library file dependency, in the form of a JAR file.