Model-Driven Engineering for Software Migration in a Large Industrial Context

As development techniques, paradigms and platforms evolve far more quickly than domain applications, software modernization and migration, is a constant challenge to software engineers. For more than ten years now, the Sodifrance company has been intensively using ModelDriven Engineering (MDE) for both development and migration projects. In this paper we report on the use of MDE as an efficient, flexible and reliable approach for a migration process (reverse-engineering, transformation and code generation). Moreover, we discuss how MDE is economically profitable and is cost-effective over the migration through out-sourced manual re-development. The paper is illustrated with the migration of a large-scale banking system from Mainframe to J2EE.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: MODELS
• Authors: Franck Fleurey, Erwan Breton, Benoit Baudry, Alain Nicolas, Jean-Marc Jézéquel
• Keywords: Constant Challenge, Migration Projects, MODELS 2007, Out-sourced Manual Re-development