COB2WEB a toolset for migrating to web services

Author

Sneed, H.M.

Author_Institution

ANECON GmbH, Vienna

fYear

2008

fDate

3-4 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

25

Abstract

This paper describes a tool set for constructing web services from existing main frame COBOL programs. The first tool - COBAudit - is intended to identify candidates for web services. The second tool - COBStrip - serves to extract only that portion of the code required to fulfill the service. The third tool - COBWrap - wraps the code extracted from original code and converts it to an executable component. The fourth tool - COBLink - connects the wrapped component to the web by generating a WSDL interface. The tools are currently under test within a project for a German financial service with an insurance system of 25 million lines of COBOL code running under IMS on the IBM mainframe.

Keywords

COBOL; Web services; COB2WEB; COBOL programs; COBStrip; German financial service; WSDL interface; migrating; original code; toolset; web services; Costs; Databases; Humans; Insurance; Marketing and sales; Service oriented architecture; System testing; Web and internet services; Web services; Wrapping; COBOL; Code; Legacy Systems; Migration; Stripping; Web services; Wrapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Site Evolution, 2008. WSE 2008. 10th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1550-4441

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2790-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSE.2008.4655391

Filename

4655391