Hello,

I'm employed at a fairly big company here in Germany and got the job to create the main website for it which will feature:

• Static contents; Information and Presentations
• An employee area (around 6000 employees) featuring various things from calenders, job descriptions, some sort of groups
• Too many other dynamic things I can't list here

I have decided to use COBOL for the job, it may be very underrated but it is a very powerful language, especially for business apps and, as my co-workers say, web (2.0) development too.

I also need to use COBOL because all the backend and transactions system of the company is programmed in it (some small parts were programmed in LISP too, idk exactly why). I also have received an API that makes it possible to use COBOL with MySQL easily.

This is a big project and it will probably take more than 2 months programming it.

• What do I have to expect when building a huge web app in COBOL?
• Are there web frameworks for COBOL available? Some sort of MVC?
• Are there any good resources for practical web-development with COBOL?

Thanks in advance