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
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