Decomposing legacy programs: A first step towards migrating to client-server platforms

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-110

  Canfora, Gerardo ^a   Cimitile, Aniello ^a   De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Di Lucca, Giuseppe A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; LEGACY SYSTEMS; REENGINEERING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

MAINFRAME-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034300617     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(00)00030-3     Document Type: Article

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