[Tiny-cobol-users] Introduction and call for ideas

[Wim N. r. <ni...@pb...>]

Hello all,

My name is wim niemans.
My origin is Eindhoven, Netherlands. Momentary I reside in Bonn, 
Germany.

I am an independent software developer (since 1979) and use mainly 
Cobol for application development (since 1972).
You may read (in Dutch) about me at www.nlbox.com/vrinternet

My point of focus is standardized Cobol. Systems I write do have 
source compatibilty between Cobol platforms. Paradigma is 'write 
once - compile everywhere (where Cobol is the environment)'. This 
as oposed to the Java paradigma 'write once-run anywhere'.

Current project is to port a wms (see www.tinywms.com) to an 
embedded Linux environment. Lately I did discover that the jargon for 
this activity is 'reconfigurable'.

Because this (cobol written) system run through a webserver and 
MUST use CGI, and I don't like C-calls (or whatever non-cobol calls), 
I intend to develop a true Cobol (written) interface for CGI. 
Comparable to the perl components cgilib.pl and/or CGI.pm.
However, there might be some stuff around. In a week there will be a 
specification available, though this will cover only my needs for CGI. 
Therefor I call for ideas, contributions, suggestions, hints, and 
whatelse might be usefull.

All resulting source code will be donated to each contributor. 
Intention is to create a true open source Cobol component.

Sincerely,
wim niemans