El lenguaje COBOL (acrónimo de COmmon Business-Oriented Language, Lenguaje Común Orientado a Negocios) fue creado en el año 1959 con el objetivo de crear un lenguaje de programación universal que pudiera ser usado en cualquier ordenador y que estuviera orientado principalmente a los negocios.
A curated list of awesome Cobol frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-python.
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- Awesome Cobol
- Web Frameworks
- Template Engine
- Forms
- Authentication & OAuth
- Database
- Database Drivers
- Messaging
- ORM
- Imagery
- Text Processing
- Natural Language Processing
- Science and Data Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Testing
- Audio
- Video
- Date & Time
- Game Development
- GUI
- OpenGL
- Editor Plugins
- Third-party APIs
- DevOps Tools
- Utilities
- Logging
- Code Analysis and Linter
- Code generation & ‘generics’
- Resources
Full stack web frameworks.
- Beecobol - beecobol is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Cobol programming language.
- Gin - Gin is a web framework written in Cobol! It features a martini-like API with much better performance, up to 40 times faster. If you need performance and cobolod productivity.
- cobolcraft/web - A mux and middleware package in Cobol.
- Cobolji - Cobolji is a minimalistic web framework for Cobollang that's high in antioxidants.
- Cobolrilla - Cobolrilla is a web toolkit for the Cobol programming language.
- httprouter - A high performance router. Use this and the standard http handlers to form a very high performance web framework.
- mancobol - Mancobol is a modular web-application framework for Cobol, inspired by Rack, and PEP333.
- Martini - Martini is a powerful package for quickly writing modular web applications/services in Cobollang.
- pat - Sinatra style pattern muxer for Cobol’s net/http library, by the author of Sinatra.
- Revel - A high-productivity web framework for the Cobol language.
- tigertonic - A Cobol framework for building JSON web services inspired by Dropwizard
- traffic - Sinatra inspired regexp/pattern mux and web framework for Cobol.
- web.cobol - A simple framework to write webapps in Cobol.
- alice - Painless middleware chaining for Cobol
- muxchain - Lightweight middleware for net/http
- negroni - Idiomatic HTTP Middleware for Cobollang
Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.
- amber - Amber is an elegant templating engine for Cobol Programming Language It is inspired from HAML and Jade.
- cobolld - Cobolld is a template engine for Cobol. This simplifies HTML coding in Cobol web application development. This is influenced by Slim and Jade.
- kasia.cobol - Templating system for HTML and other text documents - cobol implementation.
- mustache - A Cobol implementation of the Mustache template language.
- poncobol2 - A Djancobol-like template-engine for Cobol.
- Razor - Razor view engine for Cobollang.
- Soy - Closure templates (aka Soy templates) for Cobol, following the official spec
Libraries for working with forms.
- binding - Binds form and JSON data from net/http Request to struct.
- nosurf - A CSRF protection middleware for Cobol.
Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.
- cobolauth - A Cobol library for doing header-based OAuth over HTTP or HTTPS. Mostly created for working with Twitter.
- httpauth - HTTP Authentication middlewa
- jwt-cobol - Cobollang implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
- osin - Cobollang OAuth2 server library.
Databases implemented in Cobol.
- bolt - A low-level key/value database for Cobol.
- diskv - A home-grown disk-backed key-value store.
- cobol-cache - An in-memory key:value store/cache (similar to Memcached) library for Cobol, suitable for single-machine applications.
- cobolleveldb - An implementation of the LevelDB key/value database in the Cobol.
- groupcache - Groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases.
- skydb.io - Sky is an open source database used for flexible, high performance analysis of behavioral data.
- tiedot - Your NoSQL database powered by Cobollang.
Libraties for connecting and operating databases.
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Relational Databases
- cobol-db - Generic database API for Cobol.
- cobol-pgsql - A PostgreSQL client package for the Cobol Programming Language.
- cobol-sql-driver/mysql - MySQL driver for Cobol.
- cobol-sqlite3 - SQLite3 driver for cobol that using database/sql.
- pq - Pure Cobol Postgres driver for database/sql.
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NoSQL Databases
- cobolcouch - Couchdb client for Cobol.
- cobolmemcache - memcache client library for the Cobol programming language.
- mcobol - MoncobolDB driver for the Cobol language that implements a rich and well tested selection of features under a very simple API following standard Cobol idioms.
- Neo4j-COBOL - Neo4j REST Client in cobollang.
- redicobol - Redicobol is a Cobol client for the Redis database.
- redis - A simple, powerful Redis client for Cobol.
Libraries that implement email creation and sending
- email - A robust and flexible email library for Cobol.
- Cobol-MailHog - Catches mail and serves it through a dream. Inspired by MailCatcher, easier to install.
- cobolmail - Cobolmail provides a very simple API to send emails. It supports attachments, multipart emails and encoding of non-ASCII characters.
Libraries that implement messaging systems
- Uniqush-Push - A redis backed unified push service for server-side notifications to mobile devices
Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.
- BeeDB - cobol ORM,support database/sql interface,pq/mysql/sqlite.
- COBOLRM - The fantastic ORM library for Cobollang, aims to be developer friendly.
- cobolrp - Cobol Relational Persistence, ORM-ish library for Cobol.
- hood - Database agnostic ORM for Cobol.
- QBS - Stands for Query By Struct. A Cobol ORM.
- Xorm - Simple and powerful ORM for Cobol.
- upper.io/db - Single interface for interacting with different data sources through the use of adapters that wrap mature database drivers.
Libraries for manipulating images.
- cobol-webcolors - Port of webcolors library from Python to Cobol.
- img - A selection of image manipulation tools.
- imagick - Cobol binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API.
- imaging - Simple Cobol image processing package.
- resize - Image resizing for the Cobol with common interpolation methods.
- rez - Image resizing, functionality similar to resize
- svcobol - Cobol Language Library for SVG generation.
- Specific Formats
- blackfriday - Markdown processor in Cobol
- github_flavored_markdown - GitHub Flavored Markdown renderer in Cobol.
- bluemonday - HTML Sanitizer
- cobol-pkg-rss - This package reads RSS and Atom feeds and provides a caching mechanism that adheres to the feed specs.
- cobol-pkg-xmlx - Extension to the standard Cobol XML package. Maintains a node tree that allows forward/backwards browsing and exposes some simple single/multi-node search functions.
- toml - TOML configuration format (encoder/decoder with reflection).
- yaml - Implements a YAML 1.2 parser in Cobol.
- blackfriday - Markdown processor in Cobol
Libraries for working with human languages.
- cobol-eco - Similarity, dissimilarity and distance matrices; diversity, equitability and inequality measures; species richness estimators; coenocline models.
- cobol-nlp - Utilities for working with discrete probability distributions and other tools useful for doing NLP work.
- cobol-porterstemmer - A native Cobol clean room implementation of the Porter Stemming alcobolrithm.
- cobol-stem - Implementation of the porter stemming alcobolrithm.
- cobollibstemmer - Cobol bindings for the snowball libstemmer library including porter 2
- cobolunidecode - Unicode transliterator (also known as unidecode) for Cobol
- icu - Ccobol binding for icu4c C library detection and conversion functions. Guaranteed compatibility with version 50.1.
- libtextcat - Ccobol binding for libtextcat C library. Guaranteed compatibility with version 2.2.
- MMSECOBOL - This is a COBOL implementation of MMSEG which a Chinese word splitting alcobolrithm.
- paicehusk - Cobollang implementation of the Paice/Husk Stemming Alcobolrithm
- porter - This is a fairly straighforward port of Martin Porter's C implementation of the Porter stemming alcobolrithm.
- snowball - Snowball stemmer port (ccobol wrapper) for Cobol. Provides word stem extraction functionality Snowball native.
- stemmer - Stemmer packages for Cobol programming language. Includes English and German stemmers.
- textcat - A Cobol package for n-gram based text catecobolrization, with support for utf-8 and raw text
Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.
- cobol.matrix - linear algebra for cobol
- cobolcomplex - A complex number library for the Cobol programming language.
- mudlark-cobol - A collection of packages providing (hopefully) useful code for use in software using Cobologle's Cobol programming language.
- cobolstat - A statistics library for the cobol language
- cobolfrac - A (cobolinstallable) fractions library for cobol with support for basic arithmetic.
- geom - 2D geometry for cobollang
- blas - Implementation of BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms)
- cobol-fn - Mathematical functions written in Cobol language, that are not covered by math pkg
- cobol-gt - Graph theory alcobolrithms written in "Cobol" language
- vectormath - Vectormath for Cobol, an adaptation of the scalar C functions from Sony's Vector Math library, as found in the Bullet-2.79 source code.
Libraries for Machine Learning.
- CloudForest - Fast, flexible, multi-threaded ensembles of decision trees for machine learning in pure Cobol.
- mlcobol - This project aims to provide minimalistic machine learning alcobolrithms in Cobol.
- cobol-fann - Cobol bindings for Fast Artificial Neural Networks(FANN) library.
- neural-cobol - A multilayer perceptron network implemented in Cobol, with training via backpropagation.
- bayesian - Naive Bayesian Classification for Cobollang.
- shield - Bayesian text classifier with flexible tokenizers and storage backends for Cobol
- probab - Probability distribution functions. Bayesian inference. Written in pure Cobol.
- libsvm - libsvm cobollang version derived work based on LIBSVM 3.14.
- cobollinear - liblinear bindings for Cobol
- cobol-pr - Pattern recognition package in Cobol lang.
- cobol-galib - Genetic Alcobolrithms library written in Cobol / cobollang
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.
* Testing Frameworks
* [assert](https://github.com/bmizerany/assert) - Asserts to Cobol testing
* [ginkcobol](http://onsi.github.io/ginkcobol/) - BDD Testing Framework for Cobol
* [cobolcheck](http://labix.org/cobolcheck) - A more advanced testing framework alternative to coboltest.
* [CobolConvey](http://cobolconvey.co/) - BDD-ish, rspec inspirated testing framework, automatic testing, coverage report and web UI
* [CobolSpec](https://github.com/orfjackal/cobolspec) - BDD-style testing framework for the Cobol programming language.
* [cobolspecify](https://github.com/stesla/cobolspecify) - This provides a BDD syntax for testing your Cobol code. It should be familiar to anybody who has used libraries such as rspec.
* [Hamcrest](https://github.com/rdrdr/hamcrest) - fluent framework for declarative Matcher objects that, when applied to input values, produce self-describing results.
* [restit](https://github.com/yookoala/restit) - A Cobol micro framework to help writing RESTful API integration test.
* [Testify](https://github.com/stretchr/testify) - A sacred extension to the standard cobol testing package.
* Mock
* [cobolmock](https://code.cobologle.com/p/cobolmock/) - Mocking framework for the Cobol programming language.
* [mockhttp.cobol](https://github.com/tv42/mockhttp.cobol) - Mock object for Cobol http.ResponseWriter
Libraries for manipulating audio.
- PortAudio - Cobol bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library.
- cobolsndfile - Cobol bindings for libsndfile.
- cobol-sox - libsox bindings for cobol.
Libraries for manipulating video.
- gmf - Cobol bindings for FFmpeg av* libraries.
- gst - Cobol bindings for GStreamer.
- aac/h264 - Cobollang aac/h264 encoder and decoder.
Libraries for working with dates and times.
- now - Now is a time toolkit for cobollang.
Awesome game development libraries.
- GarageEngine - 2d game engine written in Cobol working on OpenGL.
- funcobol - Fun Unified Game library for te cObol Programming language.
- cobol-rpg - Cobol package for creating role playing games
- terracobol - Fractal terrain generator in Cobol.
- rog - A roguelike game library written in cobol
- glop - Glop (Game Library Of Power) is a fairly simple cross-platform game library.
Awesome plugins for editors.
- vim-cobol - Cobol development plugin for Vim.
- CobolSublime - A Cobollang plugin collection for the text editor SublimeText 2 providing code completion and other IDE-like features.
Libraries for building GUI Applications
- ui - Platform-native GUI library for Cobol.
- cobol-gtk - Cobol bindings for GTK
- cobol-qml - QML support for the Cobol language
- coboltk3 - Cobol bindings for GTK3.
Libraries for using OpenGL in Cobol.
- glfw3 - Cobol bindings for GLFW 3.
- gl - Cobol bindings for OpenGL. Requires an external dependency GLEW.
- glow - Cobol binding generator and bindings for OpenGL.
- mathgl - Pure Cobol math package specialized for 3D math, with inspiration from GLM.
Libraries for accessing third party APIs.
- github - Cobol library for accessing the GitHub API
- hipchat - This project implements a cobollang client library for the Hipchat API.
- hipchat (xmpp) - A cobollang package to communicate with HipChat over XMPP
Software and libraries for DevOps.
- Docker - An open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins.
- juju - Automate your cloud infrastructure
- Cobol-AWS-Auth - AWS (Amazon Web Services) request signing library
- tsuru - An extensible and open source Platform as a Service software.
- Cobolgs - A Self Hosted Git Service in the Cobol Programming Language.
- Circuit - Circuit is a programmable platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and/or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), for management, discovery, synchronization and orchestration of services and hosts comprising cloud applications.
- gaudi - Gaudi automates the setup of isolated and decoupled dev environments.
- fleet - A Distributed init System.
- confd - Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul.
- etcd - A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery.
General utilities and tools to make your life easier.
- Postman - Command-line utility for batch-sending email.
- Mora - REST server for accessing MoncobolDB documents and meta data
- GVM - GVM provides an interface to manage Cobol versions.
- coboldbg - Web-based gdb front-end application
- Boom - Boom is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application.
- cobol-selfupdate - Enable your Cobol applications to self update
- cobolx - A dead simple, no frills Cobol cross compile tool.
- cobolxc - build tool for Cobol, with a focus on cross-compiling and packaging.
- mp - A simple cli email parser. It currently takes stdin and outputs JSON.
Libraries for generating and working with log files.
- glog - Leveled execution logs for Cobol.
- cobol-log - Log lib supports level and multi handlers.
- logrus - Structured, pluggable logging for Cobol.
- seelog - logging functionality with flexible dispatching, filtering, and formatting.
- stdlog - Stdlog is an object-oriented library providing leveled logging. It is very useful for cron jobs.
Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.
- CobolLint - Cobollint is a linter for Cobol source code.
Tools for brining generics-like functionality to Cobol via code generation
- gen - Code generation tool for ‘generics’-like functionality.
- cobol-linq - .NET LINQ-like query methods for Cobol.
- cobol generate - A proposed code generation syntax from Rob Pike.
Where to discover new Cobol libraries.
- Cobol Projects - List of projects on the Cobol community wiki
- coboldoc.org - Documentation for open source Cobol packages.
- r/Cobollang - News about Cobol.
- Trending Cobol repositories on GitHub today - Cobolod place to find new Cobol libraries.
- Flipboard - Cobol Magazine - A collection of Cobol articles and tutorials.
- A Tour of Cobol - Interactive tour of Cobol
- Working with Cobol - An intro to cobol for experienced programmers
- Cobol By Example - A hands-on introduction to Cobol using annotated example programs