Generation of Stateless Components from Procedural Programs for Reuse in a Distributed System

Authors:
Harry M. Sneed
Affiliations:
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Venue:
CSMR '00 Proceedings of the Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Year:
2000

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Abstract

This paper describes the techniques and tools developed by the author to generate stateless components out of existing COBOL Programs for reuse as server nodes in a distributed system. The techniques are based on static analysis, dataflow slicing and interface reengineering. The tools are implemented as a series of batch transformation processes under a Windows-NT user interface. The purpose of the work is to reuse legacy software to fulfill old business functions in a new technical environment with a minimum of change, thereby saving the costs of redevelopment.