COBOL Web Services

You can expose COBOL programs as Web services.

You can use the Interface Mapping Toolkit to map the call interface onto a Web Services interface, and to create a WSDL file. You deploy the Web service under Enterprise Server. The Interface Mapping Toolkit is available from the Net Express IDE. For more information see the topics under Interface Mapping Toolkit in the Programming section of the Net Express Help.

Alternatively, you can use one of the tool kits based on Java, such as the IBM Web Services Toolkit, which enable Java applications to call Web services, as well as exposing Java classes as Web services. By using the support included in Micro Focus COBOL for interoperability with Java, you can use these tool kits from COBOL. For more information see the chapter Using Java and COBOL Together.