Publication: Developing a Model-Driven Reengineering Approach for Migrating PL/SQL Triggers to Java: A Practical Experience
Authors
Fernández Candel, Carlos ; García Molina, Jesús J. ; Bermúdez Ruiz, Francisco Javier ; Hoyos Barceló, José Ramón ; Sevilla Ruiz, Diego ; Cuesta Viera, Benito José
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Elsevier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2019.01.068
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©2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
This document is the Submitted Manuscript version of a Published Work that
appeared in final form in Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 151, May 2019. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2019.01.068.
Abstract
Model-driven software engineering (MDE) techniques are not only useful in forward engineering scenarios, but can also be successfully applied to evolve existing systems. RAD (Rapid Application Development) platforms emerged in the nineties, but the success of modern software technologies motivated that a large number of enterprises tackled the migration of their RAD applications, such as Oracle Forms. Our research group has collaborated with a software company in developing a solution to migrate PL/SQL monolithic code on Forms triggers and program units to Java code separated in several tiers. Our research focused on the model-driven reengineering process applied to develop the migration tool for the conversion of PL/SQL code to Java. Legacy code is represented in form of KDM (Knowledge-Discovery Metamodel) models. In this paper, we propose a software process to implement a model-driven re-engineering. This process integrates a TDD-like approach to incrementally develop model transformations with three kinds of validations for the generated code. The implementation and validation of the re-engineering approach are explained in detail, as well as the evaluation of some issues related with the application of MDE.
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Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 151, May 2019.
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