Object-Oriented COBOL / Edition 1

by Edmund C. Arranga, Frank P. Coyle

Overview

This book walks COBOL users through the next phase of COBOL: Object-oriented COBOL (OOCOBOL). Written by experts in COBOL programming, Object-Oriented COBOL teaches you how to integrate COBOL with object-oriented methodologies. It provides explanations and roadmaps that will help you understand, navigate, and successfully integrate analysis and design concepts with enabling OOCOBOL constructs. Designed for current COBOL users and based on the authors' experience teaching object-oriented COBOL, Object-Oriented COBOL can be used by COBOL programmers to begin programming effectively with objects in as little as twelve weeks, significantly less than the steep learning curve of twelve to twenty-four months for Smalltalk and C++. Object-Oriented COBOL also includes extensive examples and experiences, written in OOCOBOL, that explain the defining traits of an object-oriented language, such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780132611404
Publisher:	SIGS
Publication date:	12/13/1997
Series:	SIGS: Advances in Object Technology , #13
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	7.05(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Concepts: 1. COBOL and objects; 2. An object-oriented COBOL model; Part II. Constructs: 3. Classes - a matter of structure; 4. Objects; 5. Inheritance; Part III. Objects in Action: 6. Messages; 7. Creating and destroying objects; 8. Working with objects; 9. Collections; Part IV. Putting Objects to Work: 10. Object-oriented analysis and design; 11. Migrating Legacy Systems; Appendix A. Object-oriented COBOL vendors: Hitachi, IBM, and Micro Focus; Appendix B. The Library Application; Appendix C. COBOL reserved words; Appendix D. New COBOL reserved words; Appendix E. Intrinsic functions; Appendix F. COBOL 85/89 features.

Editorial Reviews

"I would recommend this book for those interested in seeing how an object-oriented structure can be imposed on a flat language like COBOL." Computing Reviews

From the Publisher

A programmers' manual dedicated to providing a strong understanding of object-oriented concepts, furnishing an introduction to the syntax and semantics of Object-Oriented COBOL, and background in analysis and design so users can implement their own small to medium sized applications. The text features design perspectives of CRC cares, and the Rolling Life-Cycle Perspective, strategies for migrating legacy COBOL, and an overview of compilers from Hitachi, IBM, and Micro Focus. The appendices provide additional information on COBOL reserved words, the proposed COBOL 97 language syntax, and program instruction formats. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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