CIS 365 Vandana Janeja Nov 27 th 2001 Connecting Cobol programs to Other Languages- Visual Basic, Java,HTML
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Make a DLL instead of an EXE
Java Calling a Cobol program Simplest method: Create a COBOL program Generate its Executable Write a Java program with a runtime exec object which calls the COBOL exe file.
Client Browser Web Server hosting the Servlet Server Response Object Client Request Object Session Object A general HTTP scenario Client Server Architecture and COBOL
Three tiered / N- tiered architecture Client HTML XHTML Applet Applications Application Server Web container Servlets Application Container Database Mail Server …… Other Services
HTML forms
HTML form Servlet program COBOL CGI program HTML form Database Database / Mainframe
Web Server HTML form Database Servlet program COBOL CGI program Client
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