TRANSFORMATION OF LEGACY BUSINESS SOFTWARE INTO CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURES

Thomas Rauber, Gudula Rünger

2007

Abstract

Business software systems in use contain specific knowledge which is essential for the enterprise using the software and the software has often grown over years. However, it is difficult to adapt these software systems to the rapidly changing hardware and software technologies. This so-called legacy problem is extremely cost intensive when a change in the software itself or the hardware platform is required due to a change in the business processes of the enterprise or the hardware technology. Thus, a common problem in business software is the cost effective analysis, documentation, and transformation of business software. In this paper, we concentrate on the transformation issue of software systems and propose an incremental process for transforming monolithic business software into client-server architectures. The internal logical structure of the software system is used to create software components in a flexible way. The transformation process is supported by a transformation toolset which preserves correctness and functionality.

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Rauber T. and Rünger G. (2007). TRANSFORMATION OF LEGACY BUSINESS SOFTWARE INTO CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURES . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-88-7, pages 36-43. DOI: 10.5220/0002348400360043


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Thomas Rauber and Gudula Rünger},
title={TRANSFORMATION OF LEGACY BUSINESS SOFTWARE INTO CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={36-43},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002348400360043},
isbn={978-972-8865-88-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - TRANSFORMATION OF LEGACY BUSINESS SOFTWARE INTO CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURES
SN - 978-972-8865-88-7
AU - Rauber T.
AU - Rünger G.
PY - 2007
SP - 36
EP - 43
DO - 10.5220/0002348400360043