Packaging your Application and Resources for the Plug-in

As mentioned previously in this chapter, the plug-in runtime is designed to process a single file.

Therefore, if your application contains more than one object file and you do not plan to distribute your application across a client/server network, you must package all your COBOL object files and bitmap resources into a single library file that can be processed by the plug-in runtime. If you will be using a configuration file, you can package the configuration file into the library file as well (starting with Version 4.1). If you will be interfacing your application with a relational database through Acucorp's Acu4GL product, you can package the XFD files into the library file (starting with Version 4.3).

To do this, you use the cblutil utility, the COPY RESOURCE statement, or a combination of the two. Refer to the ACUCOBOL-GT Reference Manual for additional information.