Create a Project

Walks you through the process of creating a Visual COBOL project for the ScheduleDemo application and its service interface.
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Restriction: This topic applies to Windows environments (local development) only.

Create the ProgramREST Project

Create a project for your service interface, and add files to the project.

  1. Start Visual COBOL.

    If this is the first time you start the application, you see the Welcome page in Eclipse. Click Open COBOL Perspective.

    If you have already started Eclipse, click Window > Show View > COBOL Explorer.

  2. From the Visual COBOL Main Menu, click File > New > COBOL Project.
  3. In the Project name field, type ProgramREST.
  4. If not already checked, check Use default location; then click Finish.

    The COBOL Explorer now shows the ProgramREST project.

  5. From the COBOL Explorer, right-click the ProgramREST project and select Import > Import from the context menu.
  6. Expand General; then double-click File System.
  7. Click the Browse button that corresponds to the From directory field, and browse to the %PUBLIC%\Documents\Micro Focus\Visual COBOL\Samples\Interface Mapping Toolkit\ServiceInterfaces\ScheduleDemo directory; then click OK.
  8. In the left pane, check ScheduleDemo to select all files listed in both panes.
  9. In the right pane, uncheck Readme-Ec.xml and Readme.xml. These files are used by the Samples Browser.
  10. Click Finish.

    Visual COBOL adds the files and builds the project automatically.

Set the COBOL Build Configuration

This IMTK project requires the build action to produce a dynamic link library (.dll) file for the schedule program. To ensure this behavior:

  1. In the COBOL Explorer, right-click the ProgramREST project; then select Properties from the context menu.
  2. Expand Micro Focus > Build Configurations; then click COBOL.
  3. From the Target Type drop-down list, select All Native Library Files; then click OK.