The problems posed by mission-critical legacy systems - e.g., brittleness, inflexibility, isolation, non-extensibility, lack of openness - are well known, but practical solutions ...
Bing Wu, Deirdre Lawless, Jesus Bisbal, Ray Richar...
: The ability of a new technology to reuse legacy systems is very important for its economic success. This paper presents a method for integrating legacy systems within distributed...
We show how hypertext-based program understanding tools eve new levels of abstraction by using inferred type information for cases where the subject software system is written in ...
Software developers writing new software have strong incentives to make their products compliant to standards such as corba, com, and JavaBeans. Standardscompliance facilitates in...
Eric Wohlstadter, Stoney Jackson, Premkumar T. Dev...
The main barriers to the level of electronic data interchange required to seamlessly integrate services offered by legacy systems in an Internet environment are the need for appli...
G. M. Bryan, Joanne M. Curry, Carolyn McGregor, D....
Maintenance is undoubtedly the most effort-consuming activity in software production whereby the entropy of legacy systems (e.g., due to redundancies, poor modularity and lack of ...
Houari A. Sahraoui, Petko Valtchev, Idrissa Konkob...
Large industrial legacy systems are challenges of reverseengineering activities. Reverse-engineering approaches use text-search tools based on regular expressions or work on prese...
Researchers and professionals know the importance of the documentation for the efficient maintenance of legacy software. Unfortunately, many legacy systems lack this important arti...
Legacy systems are valuable assets for organisations. They continuously evolve with new emerged technologies in rapidly changing business environment. ICENI provided an excellent ...
Surprising as it may seem, many of the early adopters of the object-oriented paradigm already face a number of problems typically encountered in large-scale legacy systems. Softwa...