Object-Oriented COBOL (Paperback)

Part I. Concepts: 1. COBOL and objects; 2. An object-oriented COBOL model; Part II. Constructs: 3. Classes - a matter of structure; 4. Objects; 5. Inheritance; Part III. Objects in Action: 6. Messages; 7. Creating and destroying objects; 8. Working with objects; 9. Collections; Part IV. Putting Objects to Work: 10. Object-oriented analysis and design; 11. Migrating Legacy Systems; Appendix A. Object-oriented COBOL vendors: Hitachi, IBM, and Micro Focus; Appendix B. The Library Application; Appendix C. COBOL reserved words; Appendix D. New COBOL reserved words; Appendix E. Intrinsic functions; Appendix F. COBOL 85/89 features.