This text recognizes that there is a shift in business to object-oriented techniques and introduces the student to this essential tool in the context of a well-established language. It provides the knowledge necessary to begin understanding how to design and develop information systems using Object COBOL. The text starts by describing OO in straightforward terms and then goes through the development of a relatively simple system using Object COBOL. The code is presented in detail and can be used by the reader, especially as the accompanying disk contains all the examples from the text.

Featuring the development of graphical user interfaces (GUI's) using the latest in Java swing components, this new edition of Java for the COBOL Programmer (Cambridge, 1999) provides COBOL programmers a clear, easy transition to Java programming by drawing on the numerous similarities between COBOL and Java. The authors introduce the COBOL programmer to the history of Java and object-oriented programming and then delve into the details of the Java syntax, always contrasting them with their parallels in COBOL. A running case study permits the reader to have an overall view of application...