Tutorial: Packaging JVM COBOL

This tutorial walks you through the steps required to compile and package JVM COBOL so that it can be used as a library in another project.

This tutorial assumes that you have COBOL JVM projects that you want to expose to a Java project in the form of a jar dependency.

Note: All projects discussed in this tutorial are available in the samples folder $COBDIR/demo.

Prerequisites

You must install the following:

  • Visual COBOL for Eclipse.
  • Java JDK 1.8.0, the JDK is used by the specified version of Ant.
  • Apache Ant 1.10.2, Apache Ant is used to build Java applications.

Apache Ant

To download Apache Ant 1.10.2:

  1. Click here, in the left pane click Binary Distributions.
  2. Click apache-ant-1.10.2-bin.zip to download.
  3. Extract the content of the zip file to a new folder.
  1. Customizing the COBOL Perspective
  2. Importing the Projects
  3. Creating a JAR File Output Folder
  4. Building the AddressBookJVM and AddressBookWrapper Projects
  5. Updating the addressBookFX Project to use .jar Files and COBOL JVM Runtime
  6. Running the Application
  7. Packaging the JVM COBOL Application from the Command Line
Parent topic: Managed COBOL Tutorials