COBOL Migration Tool

I have spent the last few years talking about platform migrations. The holy grail of platform migrations is to market tools that do everything – 100% full migration of code automagically. However, there really is no holy grail, it’s just something you chase…right?

Well, today I found a deck that is the automagical tool that we all seek. The Naca Project, from Publicitas, promises to “transcode” (that’s “automagical transformation” for non-technical folks) COBOL code to Java.

Pierre & I presented the NACA project at Jazoon 2009 in Zurich. It was another nice opportunity to present our automated solution to migrate (we say “transcode” within Publicitas) 100% automatically a Cobol application to its iso-functional Java equivalent. – link

The tools are available as open source from the following site. I’ve embedded the shared slideshow from the conference below.

What a huge contribution!