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Adventures In Modernization: Strategy + Example Converting COBOL To Java

Dallas Monson Articles, COBOL, Consulting, Development Technologies & Tools, DevOps, Java, Keyhole Creations, Modernization, Programming, Tutorial Leave a Comment

We have consultants who specialize in moving old to new, renovating dilapidated code bases, and designing brighter futures for enterprises who have been vendor-locked for most of their existence. We have come across some repeated patterns and strategies for how to approach modernization of legacy systems. In this blog, we will cover a strategy that is very popular right now, Re-Platforming.

The basic flow of this post will be:

Introduction to Modernization
High-level definition of the Re-Platforming Strategy for Modernization
Sample of Re-Platforming using Keyhole Syntax Tree Transformer, COBOL –> Java
Additional thoughts on the value/risk of this strategy

Let’s get started…

Spring Boot – The Right Boot For You!

Matt McCandless Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Tutorial 1 Comment

Need a little spring in your step? Tired of all those heavy web servers and deploying WAR files? Well youโ€™re in luck.

Spring Boot takes an opinionated view of building production-ready Spring applications. Spring Boot favors convention over configuration and is designed to get you up and running as quickly as possible.

The aim of this blog is just to get you familiar with how to get Spring Boot going on your machine. It is going to be fairly straightforward and vanilla. The goal is to get you started…

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Creating a SQL Database Project for Isolated Development

Rusty Divine .NET, Articles, Databases, Development Technologies & Tools, SQL, Tutorial 2 Comments

In this article you see how to create a database project that will let you quickly and consistently deploy a database to your local environment. This approach can help to solve some issues from team members interfering with each otherโ€™s work on a shared development database.

Then, in an upcoming article, we will show you how to take the next step to include this database project in your continuous integration process and deploy it to each environment up the chain to production so that you can eliminate the need for any direct interaction with database updates.

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Modernization: COBOL Batch Processing to Spring Batch

Keyhole Software Banking & Finance, Java, Mainframe, Modernization, New Development, Spring Batch

The Keyhole team worked to modernize the organizationโ€™s enterprise batch processing applications. This project included converting a long list of COBOL batch processing applications into Java-based batch applications using the Spring Batch framework. The project encompasses a wide range of tasks from calculating and assessing fees, to processing large vendor fees, and running recon reports.

Spring Batch: Multiple Format Output Writer

Jonny Hackett Articles, Java, Spring, Spring Batch 1 Comment

Attention: This article was published over 10 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Being a strong advocate of Spring Batch, I’ve always talked about the notion of Spring Batch providing developers with a framework that allows them …