Title :
Piecemeal migration of a document archive system with an architectural pattern language
Author :
Goedicke, Michael ; Zdun, Uwe
Author_Institution :
Specification of Software Syst., Essen Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Large applications that have evolved over the years, are often well-functioning and reliable, but have severe problems regarding flexibility and reuse. Most often it is a considerable effort to migrate such systems to a more flexible architecture or to new technologies. We present a reengineering case study of a document archive/retrieval system based on an architectural pattern language. The patterns aim at the introduction of flexibility into black-box component architectures in a piecemeal way
Keywords :
document handling; information retrieval systems; object-oriented languages; software maintenance; systems re-engineering; architectural pattern language; black-box component architectures; document archive system; document archive/retrieval system; flexible architecture; large applications; new technologies; piecemeal migration; reengineering case study; Access protocols; Application software; Database systems; Hard disks; Information retrieval; Java; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Sockets; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2001. Fifth European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1028-0
DOI :
10.1109/.2001.914983