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Migrating legacy applications toward service-oriented systems is a hard task complicated by the lack of appropriate approaches and tools. In this paper, a stepwise approach is proposed to migrate a Java application into an equivalent application composed of a set of Web services invoked by an orchestrator. In each migration step, a portion of the target application is identified and migrated into a Web service. In this approach, the role of testing is central since after each migration step the new service-oriented application is tested with the aim of checking “its equivalence” with the original version. An experiment based on four Java applications has been conducted to tune the approach and evaluate applicability and effort involved in the migration process. The obtained results confirm the viability of the proposed approach and highlight some encountered SOA migration difficulties.
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Marchetto, A., Ricca, F. From objects to services: toward a stepwise migration approach for Java applications. Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer 11, 427–440 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-009-0123-4
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