11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'04)
Incubating Services in Legacy Systems for Architectural Migration
Busan, Korea
November 30-December 03
ISBN: 0-7695-2245-9
Legacy systems are valuable assets for organisations. They continuously evolve with new emerged technologies in rapidly changing business environment. Web services, together with service-oriented architectures, facilitate legacy system webification and evolution in service-oriented computing environment. Traditional approaches to integrate legacy systems with Web service technology are wrapping a legacy system as a black-box without adequate system understanding. In this paper, we proposed a reengineering approach which applies an improved agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm to restructure legacy code and to facilitate legacy code extraction for Web service construction. It supports service identification and service packaging and archives legacy system migration into service-oriented architectures by providing functional legacy code as Web services.
Index Terms:
Legacy System, Software Reengineering, Software Evolution, Hierarchical Clustering, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Citation:
Zhuopeng Zhang, Hongji Yang, "Incubating Services in Legacy Systems for Architectural Migration," apsec, pp.196-203, 11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'04), 2004