Object-Oriented COBOL

Walks COBOL users through the next phase of COBOL: Object-Oriented COBOL. Teaches how to integrate COBOL with object-oriented methodologies.

Edmund C. Arranga (Author), Frank P. Coyle (Author)

9780132611404, SIGS

Paperback, published 13 December 1997

528 pages
22.9 x 17.9 x 2.8 cm, 0.81 kg

"I would recommend this book for those interested in seeing how an object-oriented structure can be imposed on a flat language like COBOL." Computing Reviews

This is the only book that walks COBOL users through the next phase of COBOL: Object-Oriented COBOL (OOCOBOL). Written by experts in COBOL programming, Object-Oriented COBOL teaches you how to integrate COBOL with object-oriented methodologies. It provides explanations and roadmaps that will help you understand, navigate, and successfully integrate analysis and design concepts with enabling OOCOBOL constructs. Designed for current COBOL users and based on the authors' experience teaching Object-Oriented COBOL, experienced COBOL programmers can use Object-Oriented COBOL to begin programming effectively with objects in as little as twelve weeks, significantly less than the steep learning curve of twelve to twenty-four months for Smalltalk and C++. Object-Oriented COBOL also includes extensive examples and experiences, written in OOCOBOL, that explain the defining traits of an object-oriented language, such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.

Part I. Concepts: 1. COBOL and objects
2. An object-oriented COBOL model
Part II. Constructs: 3. Classes - a matter of structure
4. Objects
5. Inheritance
Part III. Objects in Action: 6. Messages
7. Creating and destroying objects
8. Working with objects
9. Collections
Part IV. Putting Objects to Work: 10. Object-oriented analysis and design
11. Migrating Legacy Systems
Appendix A. Object-oriented COBOL vendors: Hitachi, IBM, and Micro Focus
Appendix B. The Library Application
Appendix C. COBOL reserved words
Appendix D. New COBOL reserved words
Appendix E. Intrinsic functions
Appendix F. COBOL 85/89 features.

Subject Areas: Object-oriented programming [OOP UMN]