Re: Productivity


"Howard Brazee" <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 28 Dec 2006 20:43:14 -0800, "Richard" <riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

web servers accessing both. Where is batch CoBOL needed in that?

Cobol runs fine running services for a web server.

Sure. It's advantage is when you already have people who are good at
CoBOL. I can't think of an other advantage of using it for running
web services.

I agree totally. I am currently building a web service and I would normally
have used COBOL on the server. It runs very well as a CGI processor on the
server side, but for a properly presented web service it is simply easier to
use DotNET and C#. WSDL and XML are generated automatically and there is no
requirement for the SOAP transport layer. It isn't that COBOL CAN'T do it,
it is just that there is no advantage in using it and there ARE advantages
in NOT using it, for me, at least...

Pete


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