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Model-driven software migration into service-oriented architectures

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This paper proposes model-driven techniques to extend IBM’s SOMA method towards migrating legacy systems into Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). The proposal explores how graph-based querying and transformation techniques enable the integration of legacy assets into a new SOA and how these techniques can be integrated into the overall migration process. The presented approach is applied to the identification and migration of services in an open source Java software system.

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  1. Institute for Software Technology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstr. 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Andreas Fuhr, Tassilo Horn & Volker Riediger

  2. Department of Computing Science Software Engineering, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, 26111, Oldenburg, Germany

    Andreas Winter

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Fuhr, A., Horn, T., Riediger, V. et al. Model-driven software migration into service-oriented architectures. Comput Sci Res Dev 28, 65–84 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-011-0183-z

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