title: Cobol web development/hosting resources
body: <p>I'm employed at a fairly big company here in Germany and got the job to create the main website for it which will feature:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Static contents; Information and Presentations</li>
  <li>An employee area (around 6000 employees) featuring various things from calendars, job descriptions, some sort of groups</li>
  <li>Too many other dynamic things I can't list here</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I have decided to use COBOL for the job, it may be very underrated but it is a very powerful language, especially for business apps and, as my co-workers say, web (2.0) development too.</p>
  
  <p>I also need to use COBOL because all the backend and transactions system of the company is programmed in it (some small parts were programmed in LISP too, I don't know exactly why). I also have received an API that makes it possible to use COBOL with MySQL easily.</p>
  
  <p>This is a big project and it will probably take more than 2 months programming it.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>What do I have to expect when building a huge web app in COBOL?</li>
  <li>Are there web frameworks for COBOL available? Some sort of MVC?</li>
  <li>Are there any good resources for practical web-development with COBOL?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>