Title :
The rationale for software wrapping
Abstract :
The pressure to replace legacy software systems is growing. It is becoming increasingly difficult to fulfil the requirements of a heterogeneous, distributed business world with centralized, monolithic host-based software systems. The author considers software wrapping where old code is left in its native environment and is connected to the new object-oriented software by an API or a CORBA type interface. It is possible to define business objects on the client side while using existing mainframe batch programs and online transactions on the server side as methods
Keywords :
application program interfaces; client-server systems; object-oriented methods; software maintenance; systems re-engineering; CORBA; application program interface; business objects; centralized systems; client server systems; distributed business world; legacy software replacement; mainframe batch programs; monolithic host-based software; object-oriented software; online transactions; software wrapping;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance, 1997. Proceedings., International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bari, Italy
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8013-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICSM.1997.624261
