RECOVERY AND MIGRATION OF APPLICATION LOGIC FROM LEGACY SYSTEMS

Future Internet technologies necessitate dramatic changes in system design, deliveryand usage patterns. For many legacy applications it means that their furtherdevelopment and transition to the Internet becomes problematic or evenimpossible due to the obsolescence of technologies they use. Replacement ofthe old system with the new one, built from scratch, is usually economicallyunacceptable. Therefore, there is a call for methods and tools supportingthe automated migration of legacy systems into a new paradigm. This paperproposes a tool supported method for recovery and migration of applicationlogic information from legacy systems. The information extracted from a legacyapplication is stored in the form of precise requirement-level models enablingautomated transformation into a new system structure in a model-driven way.Evaluation of the approach is based on a case study legacy system