Paper Info
Title
Measuring the impact of the approach to migration in the quality of web service interfaces
Abstract
There is a good consensus on the strategic value of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a way of structuring systems, and a common trend is to migrate legacy applications that use outdated technologies and architectures to SOA. We study the effects in the resulting Web Service interfaces of applying two traditional migration approaches combined with common ways of building services, namely, direct migration with code-first and indirect migration with contract-first. The migrated system was a 35-year-old COBOL system of a government agency that serves several millions of users. In addition, we provide a deep explanation of the trade-offs involved in following either combinations. Results confirm that the 'fast and cheap' approach to move into SOA, which is commonplace in the industry, may deliver poor service interfaces, and interface quality is also subject to the tools supporting the migration process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1080/17517575.2012.717234
Enterprise IS
Keywords
Field
DocType
direct migration,services-oriented architectures,code-first,contract-first,indirect migration,legacy system migration,service interface design,web services,service modelling
Architecture,World Wide Web,COBOL,Computer science,Structuring,Web service,Legacy system,Government
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
1
1751-7575
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
20
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cristian Mateos143043.09
Marco Crasso234820.50
Juan Manuel Rodriguez320813.72
Alejandro Zunino463853.15
Marcelo R. Campo512011.47