NetCOBOL is a COBOL development environment and suite of tools to build fast, mission-critical business systems on open platforms, including Microsoft's .NET Framework
Fujitsu's COBOL isn't unique. The added value idea behind dotNET is common language runtime, for who would think that anyone's COBOL would run in an ASP? The HTML usually there could call a COBOL routine, but it would have to be compiled on the fly to run resulting in a hit on performance.
From O'Reilly:
However, several of the goals of the .NET platform are fairly lofty and not at all guaranteed to fly, at least not in the short term. The IL common language runtime, for example, has some fairly significant hurdles to overcome before it has any real payoff for developers. Each language that wants to integrate with the component runtime has to define a subset/superset of the language that maps cleanly into and out of the IL runtime, and has to define constructs that provide the component metadata that IL requires. Then compilers (x-to-IL and IL-to-x) will have to be developed to both compile language structures (objects, components, etc.) into IL component bytecodes, and also generate language-specific interfaces to existing IL components.
Nonetheless, due to WIN's ubiquity this is being done on a practical basis. |
