COBOL Software Modernization

Nowadays, billions of lines of code are in the COBOL programming language. The book is an analysis, a diagnosis, a strategy, a MDD method and a tool to transform legacy COBOL into modernized applications that comply with Internet computing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the Cloud.Information Technology (IT) makes progresses on an exponential scale while legacy information systems are no longer able to meet the rapidly evolving requirements of critical-information business, because of Internet especially.Software is no more information processing to serve business. Software must be nothing else than a business booster, a differentiator in a globalized competition.In this scope, how to then to evolve even replace COBOL applications (the biggest software portfolio of humanity!) to avoid well-known pitfalls: sizeable long-cycle maintenance, uncontrollable adaptation costs, impossible interoperability between new and old software, slow high-end technology adoption and take-up... Modern computing frameworks like .NET, Java EE and the Cloud are evident targets of a COBOL software modernization challenge. This book is blueprint for people in charge of finding solutions when facing this both huge and risky challenge.