XML or SOAP data binding for COBOL or ANSI C applications

XML Thunder  is the leading XML/SOAP mapping and code generation solution for COBOL and ANSI C applications. It speeds up development and maintenance of XML bi-directional transformation of COBOL or C and XML or SOAP data.

Key features:   ( To see what's new in Version 4 click here...)

• Generate XML schema (XSD) from COBOL or C data structures
• Generate COBOL COPYBOOKS or C header files from XSD, WSDL , DTD or even sample XML documents
• Perform auto-mapping between XSD/XML or WSDL/SOAP nodes and COBOL or ANSI C fields
• Allow visual manual mapping between XSD/XML or WSDL/SOAP nodes and COBOL or ANSI C fields if desired
• Generate implementation code for mappings that will perform the transformation XML/SOAP to/from COBOL/ANSI C fields
  
  • Generate COBOL or ANSI C source code to parse XML or SOAP into data structures (XML Readers)
  • Generate COBOL or ANSI C souurce code to create XML or SOAP from data structures (XML Writers)

FEATURE RICH XML and SOAP support

Comprehensive automatic code generation of the implementation for your mapped XML/SOAP and COBOL/ANSI C structures speeds up development. Robust support for rich XML/SOAP features e.g.

• Parsing validation
• CHOICE
• UNION
• ALL
• NILLABLE
• SEQUENCE
• enumeration
• ELEMENTS
• ATTRIBUTES
• namespace
• recursive structures
• simple types
• complex type, including nested complex types
• imports
• includes
• and more...

How to create COBOL XML parsers quickly Brief online walkthrough

Online Flash demos of using XML Thunder™ Flash demos

DEVELOPMENT and RUNTIME ARCHITECTURE

 HOW DOES XML Thunder™ WORK?

XML Thunder's visual designer allows the mapping of XML elements and attributes to program specific data structures. The XML document structure can be manipulated easily in a visual design environment, allowing developers to design XML document handling subprograms without the need to perform tedious, low level programming or learn to use XML parsers and writing parsing logic. The appropriate source code is generated to implement the mapping between the desired XML elements and program specific data structures.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF USING XML Thunder™?

XML Thunder™ benefits

• Shelters developers from tedious XML programming so they can focus on the business logic
• Easy to use with intuitive user interface greatly improves developer productivity
• Full source code generation enables much faster development
• High return on investment - use it on 1 program and the cost of the product is already saved
• Generates XML processing subprograms for flexible architecture
• Easy understanding and mappping of XML document or SOAP messages to regular data structures via the user-friendly visual designer
• Fully automate COBOL and C source code generation for reading and writing XML documents
• Create your COBOL or C data structure from XML schema or a sample XML document, or easily map your COBOL or C data structure elements to your XML document nodes
• Runtime validation ensures that the received XML document or SOAP message conforms to their original specifications