Toward Easy Migration of Client-Server Applications to the Cloud

Jianbo Zheng, Weichang Du

2014

Abstract

As an emerging model for the delivery of software services, Software as a Service (SaaS) has come to be a trend in the software industry due to its low investment, flexibility, and accessibility. However, migration of conventional client-server systems and applications to SaaS may involve complicated processes. This paper proposes a framework for helping software developers to migrate conventional client-server applications to SaaS based applications in cloud environments, with multi-tenancy support and without redeveloping or modifying original application software. The migration framework consists of four components: service proxy, data proxy, tenant management, and cloud resources management. The four framework components, together with an original client-server application, can be seamlessly deployed on the cloud as SaaS. The proposed migration framework has been implemented on the Amazon AWS cloud engine.

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Zheng J. and Du W. (2014). Toward Easy Migration of Client-Server Applications to the Cloud . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-036-9, pages 101-108. DOI: 10.5220/0004996601010108


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft-ea14,
author={Jianbo Zheng and Weichang Du},
title={Toward Easy Migration of Client-Server Applications to the Cloud},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={101-108},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004996601010108},
isbn={978-989-758-036-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014)
TI - Toward Easy Migration of Client-Server Applications to the Cloud
SN - 978-989-758-036-9
AU - Zheng J.
AU - Du W.
PY - 2014
SP - 101
EP - 108
DO - 10.5220/0004996601010108