Reengineering Cobol With Objects: Step by Step to Sustainable Legacy Systems (Object Technology Series) [Hardcover]

Robert Levey (Author)

Book Description

Series: Object Technology Series | Publication Date: January 1996

The methodology presented in this book shows how to use objects and object techniques within COBOL. By gradual elimination of the maintenance backlog, enterprise programmers can rebuild the old logic into a robust and adaptable software system.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 257 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx) (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007037774X
• ISBN-13: 978-0070377745
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,246,282 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A COBOL BOOK FOR ALL SEASONS, May 19, 2000

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Harold Gower - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reengineering Cobol With Objects: Step by Step to Sustainable Legacy Systems (Object Technology Series) (Hardcover)

This book is the ultimate end to the evolution of COBOL from spaghetti code to structured programming to legacy systems. Robert Levey discusses how most legacy systems probably started out as well structured code and, over several years of maintenance, evolved into structured linguine (my metaphor).

He then offers a solution of reengineering with objects. This book is a must for all COBOL programmers and analysts both young and old (green and seasoned)

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Book needs a major rewrite, February 14, 2006

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John Croucher "croucher_john" (Athens, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reengineering Cobol With Objects: Step by Step to Sustainable Legacy Systems (Object Technology Series) (Hardcover)

I found this book to be dry and poorly laid out. Examples were often mentioned on one page, but shown on the next. This resulted in having to flip pages back and forth to view code snippets while reading about them. The book is too light on example source code and does not contain any complete programs. The ideas presented by the author are a broad overview. After reading this book, I have no idea about how to really start implementing them.
If you are wanting an overview of objects and how they relate to COBOL, read this book. If you are looking for a Step by Step to Sustainable Legacy Systems, then this is not the book for you.

In addition the book mentions the author, Robert Levey, is president of Prospect Systems in Nutley, NJ. However, using Google, I could not find a web site (or any information for that matter) for this company.