Реферат: Common Business Oriented Language Essay Research Paper

Java may give purists a feeling of euphoria, but in reality no one is doing

this, or if you feel really masochistic, you could try and rewrite them in C++.

Every big company has to start from where it is. This is means taking old,

arthritic applications and ?wrapping? them so they become a stable starting

point for future developments. These applications also need to be integrated,

and e-business means that these systems need to be integrated and connected to

the outside world. As a matter of fact, this is the most pressing issue facing

many large companies, forget about Java and XML, many IT manger would be happy

if their applications could talk to each other and provide an interface to the

outside world. Several computer companies already developed some economical,

practical product could combine with COBOL to working in e-business. At August

14,1995 Micro Focus announced Visual Object COBOL? version 1.0 for window?

95, in 1998 CASEGN system Ltd announces that COBOL for windows is available

free-of-charge to promote the use of COBOL as a powerful windows95/NT graphical

development tool, now IBM introduced VisualAge COBOL 2000 enterprise for OS/2

and Windows NT, and other COBOL supporters like CORBRA, MERANT, etc. those

supporter?s software are enhanced following features: a working station

development environment that enables you to seamlessly develop, modify,

reengineer, maintain, modernize, and port host applications right at your

desktop. As far as I am concerned, there is no good reason not use one of the

contemporary versions of COBOL for developing the server end of e-business

applications, and in reality many organizations will. After all, Merant is

growing at around 40 percent a year, so quite a few companies must be using its

products. As is usually the case in this industry, someone will spend years

cobbling together a Java-based e0business, applying copious amounts of tape and

string, and by the skin of their teeth get something that performs a useful

business function; and we will all marvel at it. The fact that it could have

been written in COBOL in a tenth of the time will be totally overlooked: after

all, wee must celebrate how rapidly we are advancing in this industry. We might