Transforming legacy Web applications to the MVC architecture

Author

Ping, Yu ; Kontogiannis, Kostas ; Lau, Terence C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

2003

fDate

19-21 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

133

Lastpage

142

Abstract

With the rapid changes that occur in the area of Web technologies, the porting and adaptation of existing Web applications into new platforms that take advantage of modern technologies has become an issue of increasing importance. This paper presents a reengineering framework whose target system is an architecture based on the model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern and enabled for the Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). The proposed framework is mainly concerned with the decomposition of a legacy Web application by identifying software components to be transformed into Java objects such as JavaBeans, JavaServer Pages (JSP), and Java Servlet.

Keywords

Internet; Java; object-oriented methods; software maintenance; Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition; Java Servlet; Java objects; JavaBeans; JavaServer Pages; MVC architecture; Web technologies; legacy Web application; model-view-controller design pattern; reengineering framework; software component identification; target system; Application software; Computer architecture; Data mining; Databases; HTML; Internet; Java; Laboratories; Service oriented architecture; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Technology and Engineering Practice, 2003. Eleventh Annual International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2218-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/STEP.2003.35

Filename

1372143