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Veryant's Latest isCOBOL Release Aims to Bridge the COBOL Java Divide
Veryant's new software release is aimed at helping organizations lower operational costs by modernizing COBOL assets. According to Veryant, the isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (APS) simplifies COBOL and Java integration, enhances the Eclipse-based development environment, and includes several improvements to make moving to isCOBOL from alternative platforms even easier.
“Many businesses rely on a combination of language environments and want greater value from their existing COBOL investments,” said Alfredo Iglesias, vice president of Veryant. “Our newest release makes it easy to expose core applications and data to SOA, Web Services, and other initiatives without sacrificing functionality, retraining staff, or adding complexity.”
“Veryant’s isCOBOL technology opens new markets for us because of its pure Java deployment model and the foreign language localization capabilities,” said Larry Turley, president of RTA. “It makes us more competitive and will help expand our business.”
Veryant claims the isCOBOL APS blends the optimized, business-oriented nature of COBOL with the openness, portability, and power of the Java platform. "With isCOBOL 2009, COBOL programmers can automatically generate Java classes that enable Java programs to directly access COBOL data without proprietary middleware or time-consuming, risky reengineering. This feature enhances productivity and eases integration between legacy and new application environments,", says Veryant.
The isCOBOL Runtime Environment is 100 percent Java, so COBOL applications can be deployed across multiple platforms using a single code base. The same flexibility is delivered with isCOBOL’s Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE). Users can leverage one development environment across multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and UNIX and switch between development projects when integrating COBOL with programming languages such as Java.
An import facility has been added to the isCOBOL IDE that allows existing projects and programs from alternative environments such as AcuBench to be automatically brought into the flexible Eclipse framework. The release also features other IDE enhancements such as the addition of a GUI screen designer and an integrated event editor.
The isCOBOL 2009 release offers many other new features and enhancements, including:
- The addition of Javadoc style comments in COBOL source code
- Full support for MySQL, DB2, and DB2/400 (the AS/400 version of DB2 from IBM)
- Tighter integration between isCOBOL Server and isCOBOL ISAM Server
isCOBOL APS 2009 is available immediately. The Eclipse-based isCOBOL IDE is included at no extra charge with the isCOBOL Development System.
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