LegacyJ PERCobol compiles CICS COBOL applications for Application Servers

LegacyJ Corporation announces LegacyJ PERCobol 4.0, the important link between CICS and Application Server exploitation.

LegacyJ Corporation, 5035 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118, Ph: (408 -979-8090, Fax: (408) 979-8099, email: info@legacyj.com, www.legacyj.com

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SAN JOSE, CA (PRWEB) August, 2003 --- LegacyJ Corporation announces LegacyJ PERCobol 4.0, the important link between CICS and Application Server exploitation.

LegacyJ releases the new Transaction" version of the industry leading PERCobol COBOL compiler. No longer are CICS applications tied to a single hardware and operating platform; they now can be compiled and moved freely across the enterprise. PERCobol Transaction 4.0 in conjunction with the LegacyJ Transaction Platform is the complete CICS migration solution.

LegacyJ demonstrates value by reducing in the total cost of ownership of CICS COBOL applications by repurposing these as J2EE applications. PERCobol is available with the latest version of Eclipse Integrated Development Environment permitting the use of latest state-of-the-art productivity tools for maintaining and extending COBOL along with Java. The LegacyJ solution delivers quick results with liberated applications rehosted in very little time (hours & days) versus the historic months and years of a rewrite.

Attractive Features

•    Compiler Features (dialects)

•    Integrated Development Environment

•    Multi-platform capabilities

•    Ease of use

•    Does something no other solution does

Our LegacyJ solution works and there is hardly anything better that can be said about a product", says Chuck Townsend President of LegacyJ. Add to this the speed that the product can compile and deploy an application and I think customers will see that they have a real winning solution with LegacyJ."

About PERCobol

PERCobol is the modern advanced function COBOL compiler used to build J2EE compliant, Object Oriented, Platform independent applications. PERCobol provides a simple, straight-forward migration vehicle for COBOL based applications onto Application Servers. PERCobol patented compiler technology permits existing COBOL applications to make use of modern COBOL features with little or no changes to existing code.

About LegacyJ Transaction Platform

LegacyJ Transaction Platform redeploys pseudo conversational IBM CICS COBOL Applications into a J2EE Application Server environment. One time system specific "BMS screens", programs" and data are freed to be used independently of systems.

About LegacyJ

LegacyJ is a software development company engaged in the creation of software tools for business. The Company delivers solutions that enable COBOL programmers to bridge current applications with evolving Java technology. LegacyJ, a privately held corporation, incorporated in 1996 with headquarters in San Jose, California.

For more information please visit www.legacyj.com