AcuToWeb Introduction

AcuToWeb is an innovative technology that displays the user interface portion of your server-based ACUCOBOL-GT application to a client-side browser.

The client-side browser must have HTML 5 and WebSocket support. See the extend Release Notes for a list of supported browsers and versions.

Browsers, etc.

AcuToWeb consists of the AcuToWeb Gateway, AcuConnect, ACUCOBOL-GT runtime, your COBOL application and data, and also requires a web server (such as IIS, Apache, or AcuToWeb even includes its own web server). Client-side users only require a browser that supports HTML 5, unless your application needs access to the client, for example, client-side printing or other client-side resources (such as Thin client @[DISPLAY] syntax), in which case AcuToWeb Desktop is required. AcuToWeb Desktop facilitates the communication from the server-side COBOL program (such as calls to Win$Printer) and provides printing functionality on the client.

AcuToWeb can be deployed in the following ways:

In a single-tiered environment, where the web server, AcuToWeb, AcuConnect, ACUCOBOL-GT runtime and COBOL program and data all reside on single machine.
In a multi-tiered environment, where the web server is configured to tunnel the requests to a AcuToWeb gateway residing on a different machine, and then the AcuToWeb gateway is configured to communicate with AcuConnect, ACUCOBOL-GT runtime and COBOL programs and data residing on another machine.

As AcuToWeb is used by a variety of HTML 5-supporting browsers, ActiveX controls are not supported by AcuToWeb.