A Decision Process to Migrate Legacy Systems to SOA

Author

Reis Santana, Helton Emanuel ; de Figueiredo Carneiro, Glauco

Author_Institution

Competitive Intell. Syst. Group (SIIC), Salvador Univ., Salvador, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

7-9 April 2014

Firstpage

243

Lastpage

248

Abstract

The maintenance of legacy systems is not a trivial activity in Software Engineering. To tackle this problem, industry has to some extent migrated legacy systems to the Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Issues such as the time needed to plan and execute the migration as well as the complexity and risks of this decision are challenges to be faced in such cases. This paper presents a decision process to select a methodology to migrate legacy systems to SOA considering the organization profile. The decision process considers characteristics of the organization, its legacy systems and the new architecture to be implemented. A fieldwork was conducted to characterize the execution of the decision process in a Brazilian public company. The results obtained in the fieldwork provided evidences of the feasibility of the decision process.

Keywords

service-oriented architecture; software maintenance; SOA; legacy systems; service oriented architectures; software engineering; Aging; Catalogs; Context; Maintenance engineering; Organizations; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Service-oriented architecture; Legacy Systems; Service Oriented Architecture; Software Maintenance; Software Modernization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 2014 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3187-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNG.2014.53

Filename

6822205