Web-enabling legacy applications

A recent research trend in Web applications is the integration of legacy applications on the World Wide Web. The motivations behind this research are the goals of producing a hybrid system where the Web can provide greater accessibility and distribution for legacy applications, and some standards to...

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Published inProceedings 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Cat. No.98TB100250) pp. 218 - 225
Main Authors Law, K.C.K., Ip, H.H.S., Fang Wei
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1998
Subjects
Application software
Computer science
File servers
Java
Network servers
Protocols
Prototypes
User interfaces
Web server
World Wide Web
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Summary:A recent research trend in Web applications is the integration of legacy applications on the World Wide Web. The motivations behind this research are the goals of producing a hybrid system where the Web can provide greater accessibility and distribution for legacy applications, and some standards to increase the interoperability and ease of use. For user interaction driven legacy applications, we propose a 3-tier conceptual architecture to support applications for the WWW, and present a approach to building sophisticated inactive Web systems. We benefit from this modelling approach in terms of universal accessibility, platform independency, modularity and migration efficiency. The interaction scenario between the client and server in the prototype implementation is an example to demonstrate the procedures for migrating a legacy application to the Web. Some basic technologies are reviewed and deployed for implementation of our design, including Java applet, servlet, JDBC and CORBA. Such an approach can also be extended to the newly developed Web based applications.
ISBN:0818686030
9780818686030
ISSN:1521-9097
2690-5965
DOI:10.1109/ICPADS.1998.741045