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Generating a REST Service Layer from a Legacy System

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Web 2.0 phenomenon, REST APIs and growing mobile service consumption are leading the development of web applications to a new paradigm, named cross-device web application. Most organizations often possess legacy systems which should face an ongoing evolution process to enhance its accessibility and interoperability. In such scenario, a REST API plays a key role, defining the interaction layer between the legacy system and all its heterogeneous frontends. This work presents a model-driven approach to derive a REST API from a legacy web application within the frame defined by a modernization process. In this work we detail the API generation process and provide a sample implementation instrumenting one of the studied web development frameworks to evaluate the suitability of the approach.

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Work funded by Spanish Contract MIGRARIA—TIN201 1-27340 at Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and Gobierno de Extremadura (GR-10129) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

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  1. University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain

    Roberto Rodríguez-Echeverría, Fernando Maclas, Vlctor M. Pavón, José M. Conejero & Fernando Sánchez-Figueroa

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  1. Dept of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    María José Escalona

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  3. Monash University, Caaulfield East, Victoria, Australia

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Rodríguez-Echeverría, R., Maclas, F., Pavón, V.M., Conejero, J.M., Sánchez-Figueroa, F. (2014). Generating a REST Service Layer from a Legacy System. In: José Escalona, M., Aragón, G., Linger, H., Lang, M., Barry, C., Schneider, C. (eds) Information System Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07215-9_35

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