On migrating a legacy application to the palm platform

Author

Foss, Andrew ; Wong, Kenny

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Alberta Univ., Canada

fYear

2004

fDate

24-26 June 2004

Firstpage

231

Lastpage

235

Abstract

Handheld computing devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the latest mobile phones are becoming widespread, so migrating desktop applications to these platforms is of great interest to developers. However, little information is available to guide the novice especially for the palm OS, the,most popular platform in the PDA and smartphone arena. This paper highlights the migration challenges involved and potential directions in easing this reengineering process. To explore the practical understanding and reengineering issues, a large legacy application was partially migrated to palm OS.

Keywords

mobile handsets; notebook computers; reverse engineering; systems re-engineering; desktop applications; handheld computing devices; migration challenges; mobile phones; palm OS; personal digital assistants; potential directions; reengineering process; smartphone; Application software; Databases; Environmental economics; Graphical user interfaces; Handheld computers; Mobile handsets; Operating systems; Personal digital assistants; Power generation economics; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension, 2004. Proceedings. 12th IEEE International Workshop on

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2149-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPC.2004.1311065

Filename

1311065