Canam Goes JSON with COBOL Integration Tool
October 4, 2011 Alex Woodie
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Canam Software Labs, a developer of tools to retrofit COBOL applications with XML connectivity, recently announced that its flagship XML Thunder tool can now speak JSON, the standard language for communicating with JavaScript applications. Mississauga, Ontario-based Canam Software created XML Thunder to simplify the task of creating new XML integration points for existing COBOL and C code running on IBM i, z/OS, Unisys, HP Nonstop, and Unix platforms. The software features a GUI design tool and wizard-based guides, and automatically generates COBOL and C code that’s mapped to XML documents or simple object access protocol (SOAP) statements. Now, you can add JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) to that list. For IBM i shops and ISVs that write back-office apps in COBOL, JSON support provides another way to integrate those COBOL apps with modern Web 2.0 apps developed using JavaScript. Canam says one of its customers has adopted JSON, and the result was a several hundred percent increase in processing speed relative to comparable SOAP messages. Canam claims more than 300 customers in 50 countries. For more information see the vendor’s website at www.canamsoftware.com.
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