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Recommended Citation: VanLengen, C A and J D Haney.  Creating Web Services for Legacy COBOL.  In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2006, v 23 (Dallas): §2142. ISSN: 1542-7382. (A later version appears in Information Systems Education Journal 7(28). ISSN: 1545-679X.)
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Creating Web Services for Legacy COBOL

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Craig A. VanLengen    [a1] [a2]
W. A. Franke College of Business
Northern Arizona University    [u1] [u2]
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA    [c1] [c2]

John D. Haney    [a1] [a2]
W. A. Franke College of Business
Northern Arizona University    [u1] [u2]
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA    [c1] [c2]

Billions of lines of COBOL code are executed on a daily basis, primarily in financial transactions. With the presence of newer development environments these programs must be rewritten or accessed in a viable way. Placing legacy programs into web services is one way to interface existing functional programs with contemporary interfaces, whether Windows or Web. This study presents how a COBOL legacy program can be placed into a web service and accessed from a COBOL client, a Windows client, and a web client. The inclusion of this type of skill into the curriculum is highly desirable in order to address the skill loss due to the retirement of COBOL programmers.

Keywords: web services, client, COBOL, .NET, legacy, Windows, web

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