Tutorials and Demonstrations

We have provided dozens of tutorials and demonstration projects, to help you get up to speed with the wide range of programming techniques that are possible with your COBOL development system.

All the demonstration projects are stored in the directory $COBDIR/demo. Each demonstration has a file readme.txt stored with it. In some cases this readme file tells you where in the documentation to find the tutorial that accompanies the demonstration; in other cases the readme file itself gives detailed instructions on running the demonstration. Server Express includes a tool, Infomgr, that you can use to manage the demonstration programs. For information on using Infomgr, see the chapter Infomgr in your Utilities Guide

The introductory tutorials for developing COBOL in Eclipse are in cheat sheets. These are available from the Help menu. There are cheat sheets to:

You can also write your own cheat sheets and make these available to your users. See the Platform Plug-in Developer Guide in the Eclipse Help

The following are just a few of the demonstrations available:

Subject Description
Java
Multi-threading Multi-threading
XML-enabling COBOL
  • Using the CBL2XML Wizard and XML syntax extensions to XML-enable a legacy application
  • Using the CBL2XML Wizard and XML syntax extensions to migrate a COBOL indexed file to an XML instance document

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