Transforming legacy Web applications to the MVC architecture

Proceedings - 11th Annual International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice, STEP 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 133-142

  Ping, Yu ^a   Kontogiannis, K ^b   Lau, T C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c IBM TORONTO LAB   (Canada)

Author keywords

Application software; Computer architecture; Data mining; Databases; HTML; Internet; Java; Laboratories; Service oriented architecture; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HTML; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LABORATORIES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ARCHITECTURE-BASED; JAVA; JAVASERVER PAGES; MODEL VIEW CONTROLLER DESIGN PATTERNS; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; MVC ARCHITECTURES; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; WEB TECHNOLOGIES;

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

EID: 84947914727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/STEP.2003.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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