New to Eclipse

Enterprise Developer uses a proven industry Integrated Development Environment that provides advanced features for COBOL editing and debugging for application developers. Continuous background compilation, code analysis, code search, and remote compiling and debugging are just a few of the many developer tools available to streamline application delivery. In addition, you can utilize REST and JSON to build new web services, create new user interfaces using HTML-5 and combine COBOL with Java and other Java Virtual Machine (JVM) languages - all within one IDE.

Where to start?

If you've never used Eclipse before, this product help includes the following resources to help you get started:

What next?

Enterprise Developer is a powerful development environment with a variety of features and tools suited to help you get on with your programming effectively and efficiently.

A number of Micro Focus videos are available on YouTube showing you how to perform various programming tasks. For example, the following videos show how you can expose COBOL applications as Web services:

Note: These videos use Visual COBOL but equally apply to Enterprise Developer.

Also, check the Micro Focus Enterprise Developer YouTube videos that show how to develop applications that run on the mainframe.