Developing and Deploying COBOL Web services

Micro Focus COBOL Technology includes a high-performance, robust, proven and portable platform for the deployment of COBOL applications on Windows, UNIX and Linux. By directly supporting COBOL web services, Micro Focus provides an open approach to the deployment of business processes within an enterprise Service Oriented Architecture.

Micro Focus Professional Services can deliver a set of COBOL Web services by undertaking a project through assessment, pilot, build, testing and deployment stages based on your specific business objectives. Alternatively we can enable your development team to do the job themselves:

Aims and Approach

The aim of this consulting service is to help your team learn how to develop and deploy COBOL based business processes as Web services.

Micro Focus consultants will work with your team to get them up to speed as they create their first set of COBOL Web services.

This consulting service is typically combined with training for the development and operations teams in the specific Micro Focus products they will utilize during and after the service engagement.

Key Stages

Micro Focus consultants will work with your application development team as they:

• Review the business applications and select the initial web services to be deployed
• Install and configure the appropriate Micro Focus products
• Use the appropriate development tools to create the initial set of Web services
• Deploy the COBOL Web services on the server
• Test the Web services, invoking them from COBOL, .NET or Java/J2EE
• Invoke a non-COBOL Web service from COBOL