Tutorial: Creating a JVM COBOL Application Using a JavaFX Interface

This tutorial takes you through the steps to create a native COBOL program that uses copybooks to enable you to create, read, modify, and delete contact information from a file. You are taken through the steps to create native COBOL test cases that interact through a user interface created using the JavaFX library. You will compile the native COBOL programs as JVM Managed source.

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

Prerequisites

You must have installed Visual COBOL for Eclipse and a version of Oracle's Java that contains the JavaFX libraries.

  1. Customizing the COBOL Perspective
  2. Creating a COBOL JVM Project
  3. Creating a COBOL JVM Unit Test Project
  4. Creating a Project to Expose the Record Functions
  5. Creating a Java JUnit Testing Project
  6. Creating a Project to Handle the User Interface
  7. Running the Application
Parent topic: Managed COBOL Tutorials