A Black-Box Strategy to Migrate GUI-Based Legacy Systems to Web Services

Author

Zhang, Bo ; Bao, Liang ; Zhou, Rumin ; Hu, Shengming ; Chen, Ping

Author_Institution

Software Eng. Inst., Xidian Univ., Xian, China

fYear

2008

fDate

18-19 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

31

Abstract

While legacy systems are becoming incompatible with evolving web service applications, migration of legacy systems towards service-oriented computing is arousing wide concern for the purpose of salvaging the past investments on those systems. In this paper, a black-box strategy is proposed to export customized interactive functionality of legacy systems towards web services using a wrapping methodology suitable to GUI-based legacy systems. Our strategy also proposes a solution to deploy web services that consist of interoperations between user and legacy systems in a service-oriented architecture. Finally, a distributed framework that executes web services and integrates graphical user interfaces of legacy systems is presented.

Keywords

Web services; graphical user interfaces; software architecture; software maintenance; GUI; Web Services; black-box strategy; graphical user interfaces; legacy systems; service-oriented architecture; service-oriented computing; wrapping methodology; Application software; Business; Costs; Graphical user interfaces; Investments; Service oriented architecture; Software engineering; Systems engineering and theory; Web services; Wrapping; GUI; Legacy Migration; SOA;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service-Oriented System Engineering, 2008. SOSE '08. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Jhongli

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3499-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3499-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOSE.2008.8

Filename

4730458