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Title: Live from the trenches. Building .NET web applications on top of COBOL
Proposer: sander_hoogendoorn
Type: Presentation
Duration: 90 minutes
Description: In the Netherlands we are running in intriguing project for a major social security agency building an ASP.NET web application on top of one of the largest COBOL installations in the country. This 25 person (and growing) project includes many different aspects that make life challenging, including combining ASP.NET, an open source MVC implementation, a process layer based on modeling smart use cases, domain driven design, model driven development (with code generation) and some huge COBOL back end systems that deliver and receive data not in services but instead in byte arrays, leaving the team with loads of functional and technical challenges, including mixing .NET and COBOL development, applying and building frameworks and many transformation questions to be answered. During this talk appreciated international speaker Sander Hoogendoorn, principal technology officer and global agile thought leader at Capgemini, and chief software architect for this project, will discuss the many architectural and technical issues this project needed to solve, and will demonstrates the modeling, architectural and design patterns applied to the solution the project is implementing. These include modeling requirements in smart use cases, and converting these into code, how to unit test mixed .NET and COBOL code, collaborating with COBOL designers and developers in .NET a project, transforming byte arrays into domain models. This talk comes live from the trenches with many code examples and demos from the actual application being built, presenting the opportunity for participants to learn a from real life complex mixed technology project.

Roger: I don't recall ever seeing any other COBOL proposals … might be an interesting approach?