A Hybrid Architecture for the Incremental Migration of a Web Front-end

Benoît Verhaeghe, Benoît Verhaeghe, Anas Shatnawi, Abderrahmane Seriai, Anne Etien, Nicolas Anquetil, Mustapha Derras, Stéphane Ducasse

2022

Abstract

Nowadays, software migration is an effective solution to adopt new technologies while reusing the business value of existing applications. Among other challenges, the size and complexity of large applications are obstacles that increase the risks of migration projects. Moreover, the migration can imply a switch of programming languages. This is the case when migrating from Java to TypeScript. Thus, it is hard to migrate large and complex applications in one straightforward step. Incremental approaches have been designed to counter this problem. These approaches are based on hybrid architecture usages. However, none of the approaches use a hybrid architecture for GUI defined with different programming languages. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid architecture that enables the incremental migration of web applications. Our architecture is based on Web Components that allow legacy technology artifacts to work with modern ones. We implement the architecture and use it in the case of migrating GWT applications to Angular. Then, we validate its usability in a real context by migrating an industrial web application.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Verhaeghe B., Shatnawi A., Seriai A., Etien A., Anquetil N., Derras M. and Ducasse S. (2022). A Hybrid Architecture for the Incremental Migration of a Web Front-end. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-758-588-3, pages 101-110. DOI: 10.5220/0011338900003266

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft22,
author={Benoît Verhaeghe and Anas Shatnawi and Abderrahmane Seriai and Anne Etien and Nicolas Anquetil and Mustapha Derras and Stéphane Ducasse},
title={A Hybrid Architecture for the Incremental Migration of a Web Front-end},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2022},
pages={101-110},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011338900003266},
isbn={978-989-758-588-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - A Hybrid Architecture for the Incremental Migration of a Web Front-end
SN - 978-989-758-588-3
AU - Verhaeghe B.
AU - Shatnawi A.
AU - Seriai A.
AU - Etien A.
AU - Anquetil N.
AU - Derras M.
AU - Ducasse S.
PY - 2022
SP - 101
EP - 110
DO - 10.5220/0011338900003266