JCI - Invocation API for COBOL

The Java-COBOL Interface (JCI) is a collection of functions and COBOL-COPY elements to permit simpler operation of the interfaces of the Java Invocation API from COBOL programs.

The Java Invocation API is part of the Java Native Interface (JNI). As it is designed for th language C/C++, its interfaces are inconvenient to operate directly from COBOL programs.

The JCI supports the following functions:

• Starting a Java VM

• Loading classes

• Calling methods

• Generating and editing Java objects

• Checking whether an exception has been generated

• Terminating a Java VM

The option of creating and calling native COBOL methods is not supported.