Journal of Applied Science and Engineering

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Chia-Chu Chiang This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.1

1Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 South University Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas 72204-1099, U.S.A.


 

Received: March 1, 2006
Accepted: February 5, 2007
Publication Date: March 1, 2008

Download Citation: ||https://doi.org/10.6180/jase.2008.11.1.08  


ABSTRACT


As a computing environment evolves, heterogeneous and distributed computing environments are often unavoidable. Companies are willing to retain their legacy systems and also acquire new types of systems for their daily business operations. Rewrite, facelift and convert are three common ways to address legacy integration for use in heterogeneous and distributed computing environments. Rewrite and convert may not be suitable for companies to reengineer their legacy systems because the companies have made significant investments in the systems. They are more willing to reduce the effort of their programming staff and minimize unnecessary rework. Therefore, it is essential to provide a cost effective approach to integrating legacy systems. In this paper, we present an extended facelift approach to integrating an industry mainframe-based software reengineering legacy system in a distributed heterogeneous computing environment. An experience of implementing the approach and lessons learned are also discussed.


Keywords: CORBA, Heterogeneous Software, Legacy Integration, Reengineering, Wrapper


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