It is said that it is easier to convert a COBOL programmer to Java or .Net than for the middleware programmer to COBOL technologies. Why, first the reluctance of the former to learn a legacy technology and the second it is much structurally rigid as fas as following rules in coding and logic constructs.
But just like the article on learning Java for the COBOL programmers, learning this language is not hard if given enough perseverance and mentoring. First, you have to get hold of...
Contributor: Rene Palabasan
Last Edited: 2009-11-04 18:07:21
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In reality, as the usual 20/80 rule also applies to Java, you only need to know the first 20% of the Java stuff for you to proceed on having a hands-on experience writing Java for maintenance purposes or for simple application. This is what they call in the Java community as POJO or ‘Plain Old Java Object’. The rest of the 80% is meant for the specifics of the trade and is only used by the more robust Java framework architecture.
First, let us introduce the concept of object-...
Contributor: Rene Palabasan
Last Edited: 2009-10-28 04:52:27
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Have you heard about IFRS? IFRS stands for International Financial Reporting Standards. IFRS will be implemented in Canada and will replace Canadian GAAP, first for Publicly Accountable Enterprises (PAE’s) beginning in fiscal years on or after January 1, 2011. A publicly accountable enterprise is an entity, other than a not-for-profit organization, or a government or other entity in the public sector that:
i. has issued, or is in the process of issuing, debt or equity instruments that ...
Contributor: Dean de
Last Edited: 2009-10-20 18:56:01
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Some people say COBOL is dead, it will be replaced by Web 2.0 mashup technologies like Java, C#, VB.net, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Jasper, Hibernate, Spring, Flash, Media Player, RSS, Ajax, Https, FTP and budding cloud computing. The interactivity of the web interfaces over the internet is evolving the concept of the internet as a cloud of same service provider; an ever increasing sea of computing resources.
When people refer to COBOL, they should not refer to it as just a language...
Contributor: Rene Palabasan
Last Edited: 2009-10-01 10:56:05
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Open source technology is at the mainstream corporate world now. It has arrived. Technology such as Hibernate, Jasper, iText, Ajax, php, mysql, perl have come of age. It is now common to see corporate enterprise and legacy systems interface and integrate with them. How are some of them used in the corporate world?
One example is the use of pdf writer Jasper in combination with Hibernate and iText pdf templating to generate multiple reports extracted from the legacy applications in...
Contributor: Rene Palabasan
Last Edited: 2009-10-01 10:55:04
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COBOL skills are diminishing and maintaining legacy systems in the modern J2EE and .Net world not including the trend for open languages such as PHP and MYSQL along with traditional middleware languages such as C and C++ are becoming a challenge. In the light of these shotage and need for bridging the legacy system to the future technologies, this site will feature articles that the author is knowledgeable and has had 14 and 8 years experience in COBOL technologies and middleware languages espe...
Contributor: Rene Palabasan
Last Edited: 2009-09-28 10:44:17
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Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area was up 28% last month compared to the same period last year. Latest figures from the Toronto Real Estate Board show almost 10,000 properties were sold last month. Prices averaged $395,414, up 6%.
In June, the GTA real estate market already showed an uptick but the latest numbers are making a stronger case that Toronto’s housing market may have finally started to recover from the prolonged slump that started in the fall of last year.
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Contributor: Alfred Elicierto
Last Edited: 2009-09-07 20:07:47
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