A wrapping approach for migrating legacy system interactive functionalities to Service Oriented Architectures

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 463-480

  Canfora, Gerardo ^a   Fasolino, Anna Rita ^b   Frattolillo, Gianni ^b   Tramontana, Porfirio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Legacy system migration; Legacy system wrapping; Service Oriented Architecture; Web Service

Indexed keywords

FINITE AUTOMATA; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; WEB SERVICES;

LEGACY SYSTEM MIGRATION; LEGACY SYSTEM WRAPPING; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE;

LEGACY SYSTEMS;

EID: 40049091583     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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