Migrating legacy systems towards object-oriented platforms

Author

De Lucia, A. ; Lucca, G. A Di ; Fasolino, A.R. ; Guerra, P. ; Petruzzelli, S.

fYear

1997

fDate

1-3 Oct. 1997

Firstpage

122

Lastpage

129

Abstract

Presents an approach to migrate legacy systems to object-oriented platforms. The process consists of six sequential phases and encompasses reverse engineering and re-engineering activities. The aim of the reverse engineering phases is to decompose programs into components implementing user interface management and components implementing application domain objects. The identification of objects is centred around a persistent data store and exploits object-oriented design metrics. Wrapping techniques are the core of the re-engineering activities. They make new systems able to exploit existing resources, thus allowing an incremental and selective translation of the identified objects

Keywords

object-oriented databases; object-oriented methods; object-oriented programming; reverse engineering; software maintenance; software metrics; subroutines; systems re-engineering; user interface management systems; application domain objects; existing resources exploitation; incremental translation; legacy systems migration; object identification; object-oriented design metrics; object-oriented platforms; persistent data store; program components; program decomposition; reengineering activities; reverse engineering activities; selective translation; sequential phases; user interface management; wrapping techniques;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 1997. Proceedings., International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bari, Italy

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8013-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.1997.624238

Filename

5726942