Porting from Cobol to Java [closed]

Question

What differences are there between the top level architectures of Cobol and Java?

What are the styles and cultures that programmers adopt in these two languages?

How can one best port from Cobol to Java?

Answer 1

I was the project leader for the project NACA mentionned above (automatic transcoding from cobol to java for 4 millions lines of Cobol).

If you have any specific question, please feel free to get in touch with me via a comment at the bottom of my article mentioned above.

We've had lots of projects around the world reusing our tools with good success. We still improve them on a regular basis (check out http://code.google.com/p/naca) to fulfill the needs of those projects based on NACA tech.

Answer 2

Theres an interesting book available for a $1 (paperback) that may help in such an endeavour, 'Java for Cobol Programmers' by John C. Byrne http://amzn.to/bKqc5j