A new approach to wrap legacy programs into web services

Author

Parsa, Saeed ; Ghods, Leila

Author_Institution

Comput. Eng. Dept., Iran Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Tehran

fYear

2008

fDate

24-27 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

442

Lastpage

447

Abstract

Reengineering a legacy system to provide Web Services is a great challenge. Wrapping legacy systems is a proper solution to expose legacy program functionalities as Web Services. In this paper we propose a new approach in two phases to integrate legacy programs written in legacy languages such as C or Pascal into Web Services. This will be done by analyzing the legacy program and creating a Service Bus Class. Also, an automatic wrapping tool is developed to generate Web Services and related source code in Microsoft .Net environment. To evaluate this approach a legacy student learning program was wrapped into Web Services.

Keywords

Web services; software maintenance; systems re-engineering; C language; Web service; microsoft .net environment; service bus class; source code; system reengineering; wrap legacy student learning program; Application software; Business communication; Computer languages; Connectors; Information technology; Reverse engineering; Service oriented architecture; Software systems; Web services; Wrapping; Legacy Programs; SOA; Service Bus Class; Web Service; Wrapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology, 2008. ICCIT 2008. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Khulna

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2135-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2136-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCITECHN.2008.4803065

Filename

4803065