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Sun, 08/03/2003 - 21:01 — Christoph C. Cemper

Jorgen Thelin’s had a little quiz up about “Guess the Programming Language” for full access to XML Web Services – well using Microfocus NetExpress even Cobol can become Web Services enabled…

I remember a german product being available aprox. 2 yrs ago providing the same functionality (I saw their presentation on the XML Web Services Conference 2001 where I spoke)... unfortuantely I cannot remember their name nor product at the moment… I’ll enqueue a lookup-batch in my brain-background processor ;-)

Microfocus NetExpress is being used in a huge legacy-application integration into SAP (probably also utilizing SAP NetWeacher technology) to provide a Web Services layer at a large railway-company and a good colleague of mine is in that project… I will sure keep track of how that big project (involving Siemens, T-Systems and Microfocus themselves :-) is going to perform… One critical point in all these nice layering techniques (the Web services layer runs on the host(!)) is of course performance… old Cobol does not neet to instantiate XML parsers, DOMs or at least SAX parsers for processing… tough their CPUs and memories should lack the necessary capacity…

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Mon, 08/04/2003 - 12:16 — Jorgen Thelin (not verified)

Web Services via Microfocus NetExpress for Cobol

Hi Christoph,

I think the company you are struggling to remember is probably Shinka with a product of the same name. They were based in Berlin and were around approx 2-3 years ago, but unfortunately went out of business about a year back if I remember correctly. They had a good product, and I met up with them at a few JavaOne shows some years back. I'm not sure what Dirk Slama and the guys are up to now though.

- Jorgen

Mon, 08/04/2003 - 15:49 — Christoph (not verified)

Web Services via Microfocus NetExpress for Cobol

Jorgen, thanks for your feedback - I knew Shinka aswell with their integration toolkit. I guess it was quite mature... The company that was on my mind was even smaller and more into the business of Cobol-Migration than "web-services only"... Maybe that approach would have helped Shinka, altough I do not know by now if "the other company" still exists ;-)
cheers,christoph

Mon, 09/13/2004 - 16:53 — Kiran Swamy (not verified)

Web Services via Microfocus NetExpress for Cobol

Hello ,

I googled my way into this link. I presently have requirement to link a microfocus based cobol app on HPUX with SAP-R3. Do you know of any organizations which have successfully done this with Netweaver ?

Kiran

Mon, 09/13/2004 - 16:54 — Kiran Swamy (not verified)

Web Services via Microfocus NetExpress for Cobol

Hello ,

I googled my way into this link. I presently have requirement to link a microfocus based cobol app on HPUX with SAP-R3. Do you know of any organizations which have successfully done this with Netweaver ?

Kiran

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