COBOL Business Rule projects are large projects
Lets do the job properly
Question is how bigger would the project become if they migrated to “maintainable” Java first? Would they have to migrate the whole thing – or just parts which is destined to be re-written as rules? Depending on the COBOL platform (IBM, ESQL, UNISYS – DMS-II, ….), it is possible to have part of the system in Java and leave the rest COBOL ...