Enabling technology for migrating legacy systems to client-server systems

Increasingly, the goal of software reengineering projects is the migration of legacy systems to client server systems based around discrete objects. Although we are far from being able to fully automate this migration, tools and technology can assist an organization with the process. The author discusses two major strategies for the reallocation and redistribution of data and functionality to a client server environment. The first involves the identification of functionality with its associated sub-subsystems. The second is the identification of business rules and the redevelopment of supporting source code