Reengineering Cobol With Objects: Step by Step to Sustainable...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 257 pages
• Published by: Mcgraw-Hill Tx January 1996
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 007037774X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0070377745
• Book Dimensions: 9.5 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Book Description
Using COBOL as the programming language, this book explains how to change legacy systems into modern flexible platforms for growth and development. The computer departments of large organizations spend most of their time maintaining older systems. Most of these systems are written in COBOL. This book provides a step by step approach for eliminating the maintenance backlog by using the techniques of object oriented design. The first sections show how older methods of writing COBOL programs lead to logic that clogs programs with complexity and chokes off further development. By using objects, the book describes a complete methodology for taking these older systems and rebuilding them. In the process, the programmer gradually removes the older logic and replaces it with object oriented code. The result is systems that are adaptable to new technologies in COBOL, even though it is not an object oriented language. Along with an explanation of objects, the book presents a complete methodology for changing older systems with the new techniques.

Reader Reviews
I found this book to be dry and poorly laid out. Examples were often mentioned on one page, but shown on the next. This resulted in having to flip pages back and forth to view code snippets while reading about them. The book is too light on example source code and does not contain any complete programs. The ideas presented by the author are a broad overview. After reading this book, I have no idea about how to really start implementing them. If you are wanting an overview of objects and how they relate to COBOL, read this book. If you are looking for a Step by Step to Sustainable Legacy Systems, then this is not the book for you. In addition the book mentions the author, Robert Levey, is president of Prospect Systems in Nutley, NJ. However, using Google, I could not find a web site (or any information for that matter) for this company.