Transforming Legacy Web Applications to the MVC Architecture

Authors:
Yu Ping;Kostas Kontogiannis;Terence C. Lau
Affiliations:
University of Waterloo;Technical University of Crete;IBM Canada Laboratory
Venue:
STEP '03 Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice
Year:
2003

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Abstract

With the rapid changes that occur in the area of Web technologies, the porting and adaptation of existing Web applications into new platforms that take advantage of modern technologies has become an issue of increasing importance. This paper presents a reengineering framework whose target system is an architecture based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern and enabled for the Java驴 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). The proposed framework is mainly concerned with the decomposition of a legacy Web application by identifying software components to be transformed into Java objects such as JavaBeans, JavaServer Pages (JSP), and Java Servlet.