What do Eclipse and COBOL, the 40+ year-old computing language, have in common? The answer, according to Acucorp, is new COBOL Plug-in allowing developers and software testers to create an ACUCOBOL-GT perspective from within Eclipse.

Acucorp, a global developer of COBOL modernization solutions and Add-In Provider member of the Eclipse Foundation, today announced the availability of its ACUCOBOL-GT Eclipse Plug-in.

Using the new Plug-in, developers and software testers may create an ACUCOBOL-GT perspective from within Eclipse, says Acucoro. They can then use this perspective to access Acucorp's ACUCOBOL-GT development system — which includes a compiler, the COBOL Virtual Machine (runtime), the Vision file system, and a source-level interactive debugger. In addition, says Acucorp, this perspective makes it possible to acquire both local and online ACUCOBOL-GT documentation.

The aim is to enable developers to modernize their COBOL business systems, written in ACUCOBOL-GT, while accessing the rich variety of plug-ins offered by an increasing number of software providers contributing to the Eclipse Foundation.

The Acucorp Plug-in also permits organizations that develop applications in COBOL, as well as in C, C++, Java and other languages, to unify their development work into a single IDE.

"Our goal has always been to make things flexible for the COBOL developer," explained Drake Coker, Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Acucorp. "Now that our extend solutions feature an optional Plug-in for Eclipse, developers have access to even greater application interoperability."