Ales impair performance, after the first few anyway.
In a more serious vein Java in an adult language, an adolescent one anyway,
that lends itself to list- and pointer-oriented processing as COBOL does not.
That said, it is not usually written this way; in my experience it always turns
into a species of COBOL with semicolons when it is written by quondam COBOL
programmers.
More seriously still, since the question under discussion was not formulated
carefully enough to lend itself to a serious answer none could be or has been
provided.
The singular merit of Java is its portability. CICS APs are not notoriously
portable, and a technical case for its use under CICS (as opposed to a
marketing one for its availability there) is thus hard to make. If something
better that COBOL is wanted, C, PL/I, and the HLASM are all available there.
John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
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