Visual COBOL includes a number of container demonstrations that supplement the information in this documentation and illustrate how to
create and work with COBOL applications in containers.
There are
three different sorts of demonstration:
- The base image demonstration shows how to build
Visual COBOL images to work with your COBOL applications. You can use the base image demonstration exactly as it is supplied to create
base images that you can subsequently use with your applications, or you can modify it if needed.
- (Ubuntu platforms only) The development container base image demonstration show how to build
Visual COBOL images to work within Visual Studio Code. It builds on the previous base image to create a COBOL development environment
within the UI. The development container base image demonstration contains three sample COBOL projects that you can edit,
debug, and run within the development environment created.
- Example application demonstrations make use of the images created by the base image demonstrations and extend them to show
how to build, run and debug images containing example COBOL applications.
This section lists the container demonstrations that are supplied, and for some of the supplied demonstrations provides detailed
information such as descriptions of the files that are included.