SoftwareMining helps US tax office modernize.A project which involved the translation of five million lines of 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. code to Java has been completed in less than 14 months, thanks to technology which enables automatic computer language translation. The language modernisation of a US State tax office (MERITS Project) has been completed successfully using SoftwareMining's CORECT technology, which saves significant time and manpower over other solutions, such as total system replacement or manual updating. Working in partnership with Revenue Solutions Inc, a systems integrator An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. specialising in tax solutions, SoftwareMining's tools were deployed to perform the translation, testing and enhancement to the application. In May 2008 the US State Tax System's mainframe was switched off and the new Java application A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet. , deployed on Sun boxes, has now gone live. With five million lines of COBOL code to Java completed in 14 months, the majority of work involved a re-design of the screens, functional and non-functional (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) enhancement of the system and testing. www.softwaremining SoftwareMining is a software company specializing in tools for Modernization of Legacy COBOL applications. The toolset includes:
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