


User Defined Extensions – if you are using your own extensions for Source, Copybooks, or Datafiles.Using Revolve Point of Interest files with Net Express IDE.Create / Incorporate Custom tools in the IDE.News Micro Focus Net Express Bridges COBOL and.- E N D - Presentation Transcript

The venerable COBOL programming language still powers reams of mainframe-level applications, posing a challenge for development managers seeking a way to bridge the chasm between legacy applications and active. Net Express 5.0 from Micro Focus ( ) offers a bridge between the two worlds. It allows developers to reuse COBOL code within the.

NET framework, instead of having to rewrite it from scratch. In many instances, businesses may want to layer a graphical interface over proven, COBOL-based business logic. Under Net Express 5.0, Visual Studio 2005 can then be used to develop and extend the legacy code. "It takes COBOL programmers into a new environment. If you suddenly give a COBOL programmer a Java IDE or Visual Studio, that's quite a big leap," says John Billman, product manager for Micro Focus. "It provides a common environment for the deployment of COBOL and other Microsoft language-based applications. It's the same development environment across languages of the. NET framework."Ībout half of all organizations are still writing new COBOL code and about 15 percent of new programs are being developed with it, according to the company. "There are still huge amounts of COBOL today.
