Using the Java API from Cobol

Question

We have several COBOL programs running on our mainframe, and we need one of them to communicate with our back end repository through the Java API. Is there a way that a Cobol program can invoke a Java program?

Can I use the web service from Cobol? How to integrate Cobol with anything else?

Answer 1

I don’t know if I found this information, but this COBOL White Papers list contains a section on COBOL / Java integration, including some specific for Enterprise COBOL.

Answer 2

Found the following:

COBOL can interact with JAVA.

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Java , COBOL THREAD.

, Cobol Enterprise, -. WS, Cobol Enterprise.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Microfocus allows you to interact with COBOL and Java, but to complete the necessary steps you will need to use a Microfocus derivative called OO COBOL.

Answer 6

I do not code COBOL, but at my work we have an MVS system in which programmers derive XML / Web services from COBOL.

Answer 7

There is an IBM Java toolkit for AS / 400. Check out the java programming section in the information center.