Preparing Your ACUCOBOL-GT Application for the Web Runtime

The Web runtime component is significantly different from standard ACUCOBOL-GT runtimes in that you invoke it to process a single file. The single file may be either:

• A library file that "packages" all of the objects and resources of your application into a single file.

  The library file can contain optional configuration files, together with bitmap or JPEG images. It can also contain eXtended file descriptors (".xfd" files) for use with Acu4GL.

• The initial object of your COBOL application, with the remaining objects residing on a server.

  (This approach requires the use of AcuServer or AcuConnect technologies.)

The procedure for preparing your application for use with the Web runtime depends on whether you will be deploying your application in a distributed or non-distributed environment.