Cobol-WOW is Liant Software Corporation’s graphical user interface development tool for RM/COBOL. The goal of Veryant’s Cobol-WOW replacement is to provide a new and modern environment based on Java. The WOW developer will find the same concepts used in Cobol-WOW designer in Veryant’s solution.

All the standard GUI widgets were rewritten in Java and are supported. All the GUI widget behaviors were implemented so the WOW migrated application behaves as originally designed by the COBOL developer.

Veryant’s IDE is able to import a Cobol-WOW project and allows the user to maintain the programs via the WOW screen designer and Cobol Source Editor.

Developer productivity has been enhanced by providing improved code navigation while editing in the IDE and debugging programs, and new debugger features have been implemented.

isCOBOL IDE-generated source code mimics the code you are familiar with from the RM/COBOL WOW Designer. COBOL developers have a choice between the WOW GUI and the isCOBOL GUI when designing new application features. WOW Screens and standard isCOBOL Screens can work together as long as they’re handled by separate programs.

The isCOBOL runtime provides most of the WOW library routines to manage GUI widgets.

Cobol-WOW programs converted to isCOBOL can also run in thin client mode in an Application Server environment.