Paper Info
Title
Generating wrappers for command line programs: the Cal-Aggie Wrap-O-Matic project
Abstract
Software developers writing new software have strong incentives to make their products compliant to standards such as CORBA, COM, and Java Beans. Standards-compliance facilitates inter-operability, component-based software assembly, and software reuse, thus leading to improved quality and productivity. Legacy software, on the other hand, is usually monolithic, and hard to maintain and adapt. Many organizations, saddled with entrenched legacy software, are confronted with the need to integrate legacy assets into more modern, distributed, componentized systems that provide critical business services. Thus wrapping legacy systems for inter-operability has been an area of considerable interest. Wrappers are usually constructed by hand which can be costly and error-prone. In this paper, we specifically target command-line oriented legacy systems and describe a tool framework that automates away some of the drudgery of constructing wrappers for these systems. We describe the Cal-Aggie Wrap-O-Matic system (CAWOM), and illustrate its use to create CORBA wrappers for a) the JDB debugger, thus supporting distributed debugging using other CORBA components, and b) the Apache web-server, thus allowing remote web-server administration, potentially mediated by CORBA-compliant security services. While CORBA has some limitations, in several relatively common settings it can produce better wrappers at lower cost.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/ICSE.2001.919098
ICSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,Java,automatic programming,distributed object management,file servers,open systems,program debugging,software maintenance,Apache Web server,CAWOM,COM,CORBA components,CORBA wrappers,CORBA-compliant security services,Cal-Aggie Wrap-O-Matic project,Cal-Aggie Wrap-O-Matic system,JDB debugger,Java Beans,command line programs,command-line oriented legacy systems,component based software assembly,critical business services,distributed componentized systems,distributed debugging,interoperability,legacy assets,legacy software,remote Web server administration,software developers,software reuse,standards compliance,tool framework,wrapper generation
Software engineering,Computer science,Debugger,Common Object Request Broker Architecture,Real-time computing,Software,JavaBeans,Software maintenance,Legacy system,Dynamic program analysis,Operating system,Debugging
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0270-5257
0-7695-1050-7
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.86
18
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eric Wohlstadter133730.15
Stoney Jackson27610.18
Premkumar Devanbu34956357.68