• DocumentCode
    3140692
  • Title

    A SaaSify Tool for Converting Traditional Web-Based Applications to SaaS Application

  • Author

    Song, Jie ; Han, Feng ; Yan, Zhenxing ; Liu, Guoqi ; Zhu, Zhiliang

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Software, Northeastern Univ., Shenyang, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    4-9 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    396
  • Lastpage
    403
  • Abstract
    Nowadays, SaaS is increasingly used by web-based applications for the benefits and profits it brings to both users and service providers. It is significative if service providers can automatically convert traditional applications into SaaS mode, a SaaSify tool is needed urgently. In this paper, we analyze and conclude the new challenges of automatically SaaSify web-based application, propose several key technologies for SaaSifying, and further propose SaaSify Flow Language (SFL) to model and implement SaaSify process, finally, we use a case study to show the effects of proposed tool, and the performance experiments prove that the proposed approach is efficient and effective.
  • Keywords
    cloud computing; SaaS application; SaaSify flow language; Web-based application; Computer architecture; Databases; Grammar; Instruction sets; Libraries; XML; SFL; SaaSify; Software as a Service (SaaS);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC
  • ISSN
    2159-6182
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0836-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2159-6182
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLOUD.2011.34
  • Filename
    6008735