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Services for Legacy Software Rejuvenation: A Systematic Mapping Study

Authors:
Manuel Gonçalves da Silva Neto
Walquiria Castelo Branco Lins
Eric Bruno Perazzo Mariz

Keywords: Systematic Mapping; SOA; Legacy Systems

Abstract:
One of the promises of Service-Orientation and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the ability to revitalize legacy systems and gain a significant return of efforts and investments. SOA has gained significant attention from academic and industry as a promising architectural style enabling legacy applications to expose and reuse their functionalities. When a research area matures, there is a sharp increase in the number of searches and results available and it is important to summarize and provide a more comprehensive overview of this area. The goal of this work is to investigate the use of services in the modernization of legacy software, gathering information of rejuvenation techniques and technologies adopted. To achieve this goal, a systematic mapping study was performed covering papers recently published in journals, conferences, and workshops, available at relevant electronic databases. This study also presents the characteristics of the selected research divided into six research questions. As a result, 47 studies were selected presenting strategies and solutions for legacy rejuvenation. The results indicate that Java or Object-Oriented systems represent a significant number of legacy systems in operation today, which are adopted migration techniques to become more service oriented. The study also showed a growing number of validations with real use cases in enterprise environment.

Pages: 184 to 190

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: August 21, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-498-5

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 21, 2016 to August 25, 2016