Object-Oriented COBOL

Edmund C. Arranga, Frank P. Coyle

Cambridge University Press, 1996 - Computers - 505 pages

This book walks COBOL users through the next phase of COBOL: Object-oriented COBOL (OOCOBOL). Written by experts in COBOL programming, Object-Oriented COBOL teaches you how to integrate COBOL with object-oriented methodologies. It provides explanations and roadmaps that will help you understand, navigate, and successfully integrate analysis and design concepts with enabling OOCOBOL constructs. Designed for current COBOL users and based on the authors' experience teaching object-oriented COBOL, Object-Oriented COBOL can be used by COBOL programmers to begin programming effectively with objects in as little as twelve weeks, significantly less than the steep learning curve of twelve to twenty-four months for Smalltalk and C++. Object-Oriented COBOL also includes extensive examples and experiences, written in OOCOBOL, that explain the defining traits of an object-oriented language, such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.

Contents

• COBOL AND OBJECTS?: 3
• FOCUS OF THIS CHAPTER: 4
• WHY OBJECTS?: 5
• WHAT IS AN OBJECT?: 6
• WHY OBJECTORIENTED COBOL?: 9
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF OBJECTS: 11
• AN OBJECTORIENTED COBOL MODEL: 19
• FOCUS OF THIS CHAPTER: 20
• RESPONSIBILITYDRIVEN DESIGN: 21
• THE COMPONENTS OF CONSTRUCTION: 22
• CLASS LIBRARIES: 36
• OBJECT TECHNOLOGYA CONSISTENT APPROACH: 37
• CONSTRUCTS: 41
• CLASSESA MATTER OF STRUCTURE: 43
• A QUICK LOOK AT THE SYNTAX: 44
• THE CLASS PROGRAM: 45
• THE CLASS DEFINITION: 47
• THE FACTORY OBJECT: 54
• METHODS: 59
• THE METHOD DEFINITION: 60
• THE CLASS INTERFACE: 66
• PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER: 67
• CLASSES IN APPLICATIONS: 75
• OBJECTS: 87
• THE CONTEXT OF AN OBJECT DEFINITION: 88
• THE OBJECT DEFINITION: 90
• METHODS: 94
• THE METHOD DEFINITION: 97
• OBJECT HANDLES: 98
• OBJECT NOTATION: 102
• THE EVOLUTION OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: 103
• RESPONSIBILITYDRIVEN DESIGN AND OBJECTS: 106
• INHERITANCE: 109
• FOCUS AND FORMAT OF THIS CHAPTER: 110
• ABSTRACT CLASSES: 112
• THE INHERITANCE HIERARCHY: 114
• MULTIPLE INHERITANCE: 122
• CLASS RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAMS: 126
• OBJECTS IN ACTION: 133
• MESSAGES: 135
• MESSAGES: 136
• THE INVOKE STATEMENT: 137
• SPECIFYING OBJECT BEHAVIOR: 146
• APPLYING RESPONSIBILITYDRIVEN DESIGN: 149
• CREATING AND DESTROYING OBJECTS: 151
• FOCUS AND FORMAT OF THIS CHAPTER: 152
• CREATING OBJECTS: 154
• CREATING OBJECTS WITH RESTRICTIONS: 168
• DESTROYING OBJECTS: 175
• RESPONSIBILITYDRIVEN DESIGN AND CREATING OBJECTS: 182
• WORKING WITH OBJECTS: 191
• FOCUS AND FORMAT OF THIS CHAPTER: 192
• OBJECTRELATION CONDITIONS: 198
• CONFORMANCE: 199
• INLINE METHOD INVOCATION: 221
• USING INLINE INVOCATION: 223
• THE PROPERTY CLAUSE: 229
• THE NOSET ATTRIBUTE: 231
• THE NOGET ATTRIBUTE: 232
• NESTED PROPERTIES: 233
• APPLYING INLINE INVOCATIONS AND PROPERTIES: 238
• WORKING WITH STATIC OBJECTS: 239
• COLLECTIONS: 251
• FOCUS AND FORMAT OF THIS CHAPTER: 252
• OFREFERENCES: 258
• CREATING CHARACTERARRAY INSTANCES: 276
• CREATING DICTIONARY INSTANCES: 292
• COLLECTIONS IN ACTION: 304
• PUTTING OBJECTS TO WORK: 307
• OBJECTORIENTED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN: 309
• ANALYSIS AND DESIGN: 310
• ROLLING LIFECYCLE PERSPECTIVE: 313
• A WORKED EXAMPLE OF OBJECTORIENTED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN: 324
• MIGRATING LEGACY SYSTEMS: 337
• LEGACY OPTIONS: 338
• DO NOTHING OBJECT ORIENTED: 339
• GUI INTERFACES FOR LEGACY CODE: 340
• ADDING OBJECTBASED FUNCTIONALITY TO AN APPLICATION: 341
• WRAPPING PROGRAMS: 342
• LEGACY APPLICATIONS AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING: 345
• OBJECTORIENTED COBOL VENDORS HITACHI IBM AND MICRO FOCUS: 349
• HITACHI: 350
• IBM: 356
• MICRO FOCUS: 357
• OTHER FEATURES NOT SUPPORTED BY THE VENDORS: 361
• THE LIBRARY APPLICATION: 363
• NOTES ON STYLE: 364
• CRC CARDS: 365
• DIAGRAMS: 370
• THE LIBRARY APPLICATION CODE: 373
• COBOL RESERVED WORDS: 417
• NEW COBOL RESERVED WORDS: 423
• INTRINSIC FUNCTIONS: 425
• COBOL 8589 FEATURES: 431
• DATA SHARING: 433
• INTRINSIC FUNCTIONS: 436
• CURRENTDATE DAYOFINTEGER DATEOFINTEGER INTEGEROFDATE INTEGEROFDAY: 437
• MISCELLANEOUS: 438
• THE PROPOSED COBOL 97 LANGUAGE SYNTAX: 441
• PROGRAM INSTRUCTION FORMATS: 489
• GLOSSARY: 491
• INDEX: 495

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Object-Oriented COBOL; SIGS: Advances in Object Technology
• Authors: Edmund C. Arranga, Frank P. Coyle
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996
• ISBN: 0132611406, 9780132611404
• Length: 505 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Languages / General; Computers / Programming / Object Oriented; Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General