Web-enabling legacy systems through software transformations

Author

Abrahão, Silvia Mara ; Do Prado, Antonio Francisco

Author_Institution

Univ. Fed. de Sao Carlos, Brazil

fYear

1999

fDate

36373

Firstpage

87

Lastpage

90

Abstract

Reengineering applications so that they can be Web-enabled is a problem faced by many software development teams nowadays. In this research work, we present a semi-automated approach to help tackling this kind of problem. By using automated software transformation techniques, we combine the Fusion/RE reverse-engineering approach and the Draco-PUC transformational workbench in order to reengineer legacy procedure-oriented Clipper systems into object-oriented Java Web-enabled applications. We demonstrate our approach through a sample system having 20 K lines of code

Keywords

Internet; Java; object-oriented programming; reverse engineering; software maintenance; systems re-engineering; Draco-PUC transformational workbench; Fusion/RE reverse-engineering approach; application reengineering; automated software transformation techniques; legacy procedure-oriented Clipper system reengineering; legacy system Web enabling; object-oriented Java Web-enabled applications; semi-automated approach; software development; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer languages; Electrical capacitance tomography; Information systems; Java; Reverse engineering; Software architecture; Software maintenance; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advance Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems, WECWIS, 1999. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0334-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WECWIS.1999.788193

Filename

788193