Generation of stateless components from procedural programs for reuse in a distributed system

Author

Sneed, Harry M.

Author_Institution

Arget, Bavaria

fYear

2000

fDate

2/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

183

Lastpage

188

Abstract

The paper describes the techniques and tools developed by the author to generate stateless components from existing COBOL programs for reuse as server nodes in a distributed system. The techniques are based on static analysis, dataflow slicing and interface reengineering. The tools are implemented as a series of batch transformation processes under a Windows-NT user interface. The purpose of the work is to reuse legacy software to fulfil old business functions in a new technical environment with a minimum of change, thereby saving the costs of redevelopment

Keywords

COBOL; client-server systems; object-oriented programming; program slicing; software maintenance; software reusability; systems re-engineering; COBOL programs; Windows-NT user interface; batch transformation processes; dataflow slicing; distributed system; interface reengineering; legacy software reuse; old business functions; procedural programs; redevelopment cost; server nodes; stateless component generation; stateless component reuse; static analysis; technical environment; Business process re-engineering; Cost function; Data analysis; Emulation; Java; Logic; Network servers; Relational databases; User interfaces; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2000. Proceedings of the Fourth European

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0546-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSMR.2000.827326

Filename

827326