You can develop COBOL applications on Windows and deploy them to UNIX for testing. Studio Enterprise Edition on Windows uses the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment.
For backward compatibility, the Net Express development environment is available on Windows. This provides:
- An advanced graphical development environment
- A powerful set of developer productivity tools including an Internet Application Wizard, Script Assistant, Client/Server binding Wizard and OpenESQL Assistant
- The Class Wizard, which enables you to create COBOL classes that you can deploy in a distributed environment with Java classes and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs).
- A common development environment for Windows NT and UNIX-based COBOL applications
- Remote debugging capabilities that enable Net Express to debug COBOL client/server or Web applications running on UNIX
- A simplified UNIX deployment capability that enables you to quickly and easily transfer Net Express projects to a UNIX system and rebuild them there
- An Interface Mapping Toolkit, similar to that provided with Studio Enterprise Edition for UNIX, and Server Enterprise Edition. Some additional work is required to move files from the Windows system and to rebuild the application
