LegacyJ Announces PERCobol Version 2.5; COBOL Compiler Bridging COBOL and Java Technology.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2000 LegacyJ Corp. of Pleasanton, California Pleasanton, nicknamed "P-town"<ref name="">Ptown (Pleasanton) Bike Advocates Meeting, East Bay Bicycle Coalition website, August 14, 2007, retrieved August 17, 2007, is a city in Alameda County, California and was incorporated in 1894. , announces today PERCobol(TM) Enterprise Version 2.5. PERCobol Version 2.5 extends functionality for bringing existing COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. applications into a web enabled n-tier client/server environment A networking environment that is made up of clients and servers running applications designed for client/server architecture. See client/server. . Features included in this release are: -- Native CALL support for Visual Basic, C/C++, Native COBOL, AcuCobol and Java -- Compile performance and scalability enhancements for large COBOL programs -- 64 bit optimized numerics -- Enhanced multi-threading with extended COBOL directives and execution capabilities -- CICS Universal Client (updated from PERCobol 2.1) -- MQSeries Message queuing (initially released in PERCobol 2.1) -- New SCREEN SECTION graphical capabilities -- Graphical COBOL programmatic components (21 new components available) -- Incorporate Java Beans and ActiveX components in COBOL (with Java wrappers) -- COBOL compiler vendor compatibility routines -- CGI ease of use enhancements -- Compiler configuration files -- COBOL 2000 INITIALIZE statement support -- Vendor specific file access -- Enhanced Java integration with easy calls to and from Java Methods PERCobol contains rich COBOL compile and execution functionality. PERCobol accesses many of traditional COBOL file types and databases across a wide variety of operating platforms. PERCobol enables users to create truly platform independent graphical user interfaces and allows these GUIs to morph consistent with other interfaces present on the host platform. COBOL applications can be deployed as web server applications, as applets or any combination of Server/Client application. LegacyJ continues efforts to provide the dream of COBOL visionaries to write once and deliver application functionality anywhere. Today "anywhere" is extended beyond a single platform or a single compiler implementation to the spectrum of software applications "everywhere". "With the release of PERCobol Version 2.5, we are pleased to offer COBOL programmers with one of the richest client/server COBOL solutions on the market. PERCobol functionality enables COBOL applications to be truly platform independent, and opens COBOL to functionality that a blended COBOL and Java solution affords," stated Neil Goldfarb, Director of Sales for LegacyJ Corporation. PERCobol is available for Linux, Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 95/98, HP-MPE/iX, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) OS/390, IBM OS/400, IBM OS/2, IBM AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , SCO UnixWare, Sun Solaris SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill , Sun Solaris X86,. PERCobol is available through LegacyJ and licensed LegacyJ distributors. LegacyJ is a software development company engaged in the creation of software tools for business. The Company delivers solutions that enable COBOL programmers to bridge current applications with evolving Java technology. LegacyJ, a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation , was incorporated in 1996 and is located in Pleasanton, California. All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners or licensers. |
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