Wrapping Client-Server Application to Web Services for Internet Computing

Legacy systems are valuable assets for organisations. They have been evolving with new emerged technologies in rapidly changing business environment. Web Services technology and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) are rapidly developed and widely supported. It is a very efficient way for developers to reuse existing core business in a legacy system. Reengineering a legacy system to provide Web Services is a great challenge. A tool was developed and called Web Services Wrapper (WSW). The WSW is composed of an Analyser and a Wrapper, which focuses on client-server legacy system with Microsoft .Net. A developer can generate Web Services and related source code according to the rules and constraints step by step with the help of WSW.