NetCOBOL V11.0 NetCOBOL Studio User's Guide

11.1.1 What is the COBOL-Plug-in?

The COBOL plug-in is the Add-on component that provides the development environment functions of the COBOL applications and CORBA applications in the Interstage Studio Workbench. The COBOL plug-in can provide the following functions.

• COBOL Perspective

• Wizards for Creating COBOL Related Resources

The following table shows the resources that can be created and the relationship of the wizard.

Wizards	Generation Resources category	Generation Resource	Descriptions
COBOL project wizard	Project	COBOL project	Creates the COBOL project.
CORBA server project wizard		CORBA server project	Creates the CORBA server project.
COBOL source generation wizard	Source	COBOL source file	Creates the COBOL source.
COBOL library generation wizard		COBOL library file	Creates the COBOL library.
CORBA server application generation wizard		CORBA server application	Create the IDL files (Interface definition files) which are required to create the CORBA server application and the model of server application.
CORBA stub file wizard		CORBA stub file	Create the stub file using the IDL file created at the time of developing the CORBA server application, and then register into the project of the client application.
IDL file wizard		IDL file	Creates a client interface (IDL) file that describes the structure according to the object-oriented COBOL Mapping of CORBA / IDL
Object -oriented COBOL source generation wizard		Object-oriented COBOL source file	Creates the object-oriented COBOL source.

• Editor

  • COBOL Editor

  • IDL Editor

• View

  • "Outline" view

  • "Template" view

  • "Dependence" view

  • "Structure" view

  • "Watch" view

• COBOL Builder

• COBOL Debugger

• CDCORBA Class

In the CORBA client application development, provides the CDCORBA class in order to briefly describe the CORBA initialization process and the object search process.

Application that can support the development according to the COBOL Plug-in

Interstage Studio, which the COBOL plug-in has been inserted into, supports the development in GUI of the following applications.

• COBOL Applications

  Applications such as CORBA client according to the COBOL language description can be developed.

  For the development methods of COBOL client applications, refer to "11.6 Development of CORBA Client Application".

• CORBA Server Applications

  According to the object-oriented COBOL language, CORBA server applications can be developed.

  For the develop methods of CORBA server applications according to the object-oriented COBOL language, refer to "11.5 Development of CORBA Server Application".