cobol to java

Hi,

I am looking for a converter from cobol to java. Is there any tool available

John

"Bruintje Beer" <me@knoware.nl> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a converter from cobol to java. Is there any tool
available

Google reports 16 200 hits for "cobol to java"
including several that claim to have "tools" for
such a conversion.

"Bruintje Beer" <me@knoware.nl> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a converter from cobol to java. Is there any tool
> available
>
> John
>

I think PerCOBOL compiles COBOL to Java byte code.  Not sure that is what
you want.

On Apr 15, 11:26 pm, "Charles Hottel" <chot...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> "Bruintje Beer" <m...@knoware.nl> wrote in message
> 
> 
> 
>
> I think PerCOBOL compiles COBOL to Java byte code.  Not sure that is what
> you want.

If you want a Cobol source code to be compiled to J2EE, then there's a
lot of devtool you could use.... one of them is MF (Microfocus).
However, if you mean converting Cobol "source code" to Java "source
code"... then you're out of luck. Do not know if tools exist.

Rene

Rene_Surop wrote:
> On Apr 15, 11:26 pm, "Charles Hottel" <chot...@earthlink.net> wrote: 
>
> If you want a Cobol source code to be compiled to J2EE, then there's a
> lot of devtool you could use.... one of them is MF (Microfocus).
> However, if you mean converting Cobol "source code" to Java "source
> code"... then you're out of luck. Do not know if tools exist.
>
You might be able to do it in two steps: COBOL to C (which I think is
the default OpenCOBOL way of doing things) and then C to Java.

>>> On 4/17/2007 at 2:11 PM, in message
<vR9Vh.5670$13.4230@nnrp.ca.mci.com!nnrp1.uunet.ca>, Clever
Monkey<spamtrap@clevermonkey.org> wrote:
> Rene_Surop wrote: 
> what 
> You might be able to do it in two steps: COBOL to C (which I think is
> the default OpenCOBOL way of doing things) and then C to Java.

Wow!  I sure would hate to maintain the Java that results from that!

Frank

Frank Swarbrick wrote:
 
>
> Wow!  I sure would hate to maintain the Java that results from that!
>
> Frank

"A woman in the pulpit is like a dog raised up on its hinder legs. It is not
surprising that it does it poorly; what is surprising is that it would want
to do so at all."

www.relativity.com. I suspect you are looking for a simple source code
converter and Relativity's Modernization Workbench is not it. However, the
toolset is designed to get the end result that you desire - Java classes
from your COBOL code base. I would also expect it to work the best with
either IBM or Unisys OS2200 mainframe code.

"Bruintje Beer" <me@knoware.nl> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a converter from cobol to java. Is there any tool
> available
>
> John
>