Automatic Reengineering in MDA Using Rewriting Logic as Transformation Engine

Author

Boronat, Artur ; Carsí, José Á ; Ramos, Isidro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst. & Comput., Polytech. Univ. of Valencia, Spain

fYear

2005

fDate

21-23 March 2005

Firstpage

228

Lastpage

231

Abstract

Legacy systems are information systems that have been developed by means of methods, tools and database management systems that have become obsolete, but they are still being used due to their reliability. As time goes on, the maintenance of this software becomes more complex, expensive and painful. The MOMENT Framework supports automatic formal model transformations in MDA. This model transformation approach is based on the algebraic specification of models and benefits from mature term rewriting system technology to perform model transformation using rewriting logic. In this paper, we present how we apply this formal transformation mechanism to recover a legacy relational database, obtaining a UML-based application.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; algebraic specification; relational databases; rewriting systems; software maintenance; software reliability; systems re-engineering; MOMENT framework; UML-based application; algebraic specification; automatic formal model transformation; automatic reengineering; database management system; formal transformation mechanism; information system; legacy relational database; legacy system; reliability; rewriting logic; rewriting system technology; software maintenance; transformation engine; Automatic logic units; Context modeling; Database systems; Documentation; Engines; Logic functions; Management information systems; Proposals; Relational databases; Software maintenance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2005. CSMR 2005. Ninth European Conference on

ISSN

1534-5351

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2304-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSMR.2005.14

Filename

1402135