Automated Migration From Cobol To Java On Linux

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 24 2009, @04:02PM
from the so-kids-go-ahead-and-code-in-cobol dept.

Didier DURAND writes "Just published an article about our 100% automated migration from IBM mainframe with Cobol to Linux Java: we could convert of our own application (4 million lines of code) through the tools that we developed. Those tools are open-sourced under GPL for other companies to benefit from them. We save 3 millions euros / year after this migration!"

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I sense a modest disturbance in the job market... (Score:5, Funny)

by fuzzyfuzzyfungus (1223518) writes: on Wednesday June 24 2009, @04:17PM (#28457839) Journal

As though a few hundred cobol coders cried out in terror, and were suddenly obsolete...

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Thank the Lords of Cobol (Score:3, Funny)

by popo (107611) writes: on Wednesday June 24 2009, @04:24PM (#28457961) Homepage

BSG humor is mandatory whenever Cobol comes up...

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Re:"Automated" (Score:4, Funny)

by dzfoo (772245) writes: on Wednesday June 24 2009, @04:55PM (#28458541)

Ha, ha! You misspelled skilz!
-dZ.

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Hmmmm. (Score:3, Funny)

by Tablizer (95088) writes: on Wednesday June 24 2009, @05:00PM (#28458631) Homepage Journal

I hacked into their source code, and found something a little odd:
while (f = getFiles(srcDir)) { sendToBangalore(f); wait_a_little(); result = getFromBangalore(); save(result); }

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Re:Scary Thot (Score:2, Funny)

by larry bagina (561269) writes: on Wednesday June 24 2009, @05:18PM (#28458889) Journal

CobolEngine cobol = new CobolEngine(); cobol.AddLine("ADD A TO B GIVING RESULT"); cobol.AddLine("PRINT RESULT."); cobol.Compile(); cobol.Execute();

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Re:"Automated" (Score:4, Funny)

by BenoitRen (998927) writes: on Wednesday June 24 2009, @06:34PM (#28459905)

He isn't out-of-date. I have to suffer Java 1.6 at my college. The VM is still slow to start, and the GUI libraries still suck.

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That's terrible (Score:4, Funny)

by Max Littlemore (1001285) writes: on Wednesday June 24 2009, @09:04PM (#28461391)

I propose a fix:
while (f = getFiles(srcDir)) { sendToBangalore(f); wait_a_little(); try { result = getFromBangalore(); } catch (BangalorePedantryOnSpecException ex) { phoneBangalore(); } finally { result = doLocally(f); } save(result); }

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I sense a modest disturbance in the job market... (Score:5, Funny)

Thank the Lords of Cobol (Score:3, Funny)

Re:"Automated" (Score:4, Funny)

Hmmmm. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Scary Thot (Score:2, Funny)

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That's terrible (Score:4, Funny)

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