Automated Migration From Cobol To Java On Linux

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!"

I sense a modest disturbance in the job market...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

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

Thank the Lords of Cobol

[popo]

BSG humor is mandatory whenever Cobol comes up...

Re:"Automated"

[dzfoo]

Ha, ha! You misspelled skilz!

      -dZ.

Hmmmm.

[Tablizer]

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);
}

Re:Scary Thot

[larry bagina]

CobolEngine cobol = new CobolEngine();

cobol.AddLine("ADD A TO B GIVING RESULT");
cobol.AddLine("PRINT RESULT.");

cobol.Compile();
cobol.Execute();

Re:"Automated"

[BenoitRen]

He isn't out-of-date.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.

That's terrible

[Max Littlemore]

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);
}