COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET: A Guide for the Reformed Mainframe Programmer

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OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), 504

obfuscation, 636 “637

object activation, 845

Object Browser feature (VS .NET), 211 “216, 375

object construction, 99

object constructor strings, 755

object finalization , 99 “100

object lifetime, 845

Object Management Group (OMG), 103

object models, 152 “153

object pooling, 755, 793 “795

OBJECT REFERENCE clause (COBOL), 176

object-oriented COBOL compiler, 9

object-oriented extensions, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14

object-oriented programming, 36 “37

abstraction, 101

base class, 99

class libraries, 98

classes, 98

encapsulation, 101

inheritance, 100 “101

instantiation of objects, 99

mainframe JCL analogy, 95 “96

methods , 98

object construction, 99

object finalization, 99 “100

overriding and overloading, 102

overview, 94 “95

polymorphism, 102

properties, 98

shadowing, 102

spaghetti code, 36

Unified Modeling Language, 103 “105

USAGE clauses in, 217

objects, 281 “283

aged, 252 “256

allocating memory for, 285

dead, 251

instantiating, 284, 286

live, 251

in .NET Framework, 205

orientation, 282 , 316 “317

origin of, 282 “285

performance, 271

performance counter, 268 “269

reference, 288 “290, 299 “302, 311 “313

scope, 315 “316

serializing, 440

using, 291

value, 288 “290

visibility and availability of, 313 “317

OCCURS clause (COBOL), 180 , 291

ODBC ( Open Database Connectivity), 79 “80

information files, 383

Setup utility, 383

Office, Microsoft, 80 “82, 92, 546

Office XP Service Toolkit 2.0, 546

offline programming, 445

OLE DDB .NET Data Provider, 386

OLE/COM Object Viewer (VS .NET), 772 “773

OMEGAMON, 75

OMG (Object Management Group), 103

online application development, 445 “446

Online Community screen, of Start Page (VS .NET), 145 “146

online interactive transactional programming, 64

OnStart subprocedure, 888

OnStop subprocedure, 888

Open Database Connectivity. See ODBC (Open Database Connectivity)

open standards, 17

OPEN statement, 853

Operations Navigator, 366

Options dialog box, 150

Oracle .NET Data Provider, 386

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), 504

organizational roles and responsibilities

Other Projects folder (VS .NET), 377

out parameter, 922

out-of-process session state, 587 “588

OutPutCache directive, 682

OutPutCache module, 559

OVERFLOW compile error, 180

overloaded constructors, 290

override files, 644

overriding and overloading, 102