Written by mainframe and midrange professionals George Farr and Phil Coulthard, Java S/390 & AS/400 COBOL Programmers is designed to help COBOL programmers make the jump to Java. It teaches COBOL programmers how to read and write Java programs and helps them understand the concepts necessary to continue to improve the skills of Java. Rather than functioning only as an illustration, the Java S/390 & AS/400 COBOL programmer is a great work of more than 900 pages that addresses Javas syntax and many of the Java Development Kit (JDK) functionality through comparisons with COBOL. Because VisualAge Java (VAJ) is by far the tool most widely used Java in the AS/400 and S/390 programmers, this book also includes an introduction to VAJ with both AS/400 and S/390 details. Many analysts predict that Java will be following the lead COBOLs reign as the language of choice for business applications running on mainframe and midrange computers.