An extended approach for recovering BPMN and WebML models from legacy Web applications

A Web application is a software system which provides its functionalities through the Web Understanding, maintaining and re-engineering legacy Web applications requires a reverse-engineeringprocess. In a previous work, an ontology based Web application reverse-engineering approach has beenproposed for recovering data models presenting static aspect of the Web application. In this paper weextend this approach to cover not only static aspect but also the dynamic one. For this end, we recoveralso business process and WebML hypertext models beside the data model from the Web applicationcode. The main purpose of our work is to prepare legacy Web applications for a future reengineeringtoward semantic Web services