Reading COBOL datastructures from Java

Question

Is there a way to read COBOL data in a Java program? More concretely I\'m confronted with the following case:

I have a file with fixed length records of data. The da

Answer 1

There appear to be some commercial solutions for this. Alternatively you can use cb2xml to convert the copybooks to XML, and then import the XML into Java using whatever mechanism you require.

Answer 2

I have used Bruce's JRecord (from sourceforge) package for my project. It took only couple of days to learn to use it and saved me months of work in rolling out a much less general solution on my own. I recommend it highly.