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Web application (WA) development has been fueled by the definition and evolution of web application frameworks since late 90’s. In parallel, Model Driven Web Engineering approaches have been defined and successfully applied to reduce the effort of web application development and reuse, fostering the independence of the implementation technology. Although they pursue similar objectives, both approaches have lived and evolved separately. The work presented herein tries to reduce the gap between them by defining a model-driven reverse engineering process to generate a conceptual representation from a framework-based legacy web application. This work is part of a bigger project, named MIGRARIA, whose main goal is to define a model-driven modernization process to obtain Rich Internet Aplications (RIAs) from legacy web systems.
Work funded by Spanish Contract MIGRARIA - TIN2011-27340 at Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and Gobierno de Extremadura (GR-10129) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
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Rodríguez-Echeverría, R., Pavón, V.M., Macías, F., Conejero, J.M., Clemente, P.J., Sánchez-Figueroa, F. (2013). Generating a Conceptual Representation of a Legacy Web Application. In: Lin, X., Manolopoulos, Y., Srivastava, D., Huang, G. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2013. WISE 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8181. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41154-0_17
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