Putting Knowledge to Work - A Visual Basic Migration Case Study

Migration of legacy applications is a challenging task, even more when the target is a service oriented open platform such as J2EE, requiring reasoning about the legacy applications and understand the challenges and opportunities for a migration. This position paper presents the challenges in a VB to J2EE migration and suggests knowledge-base driven analyses to aid in the process.

By: Avi Yaeli, Neta Aizenbud-Reshef, Jonathan Bnayahu, Nurit Dor, Sara Porat, Asaf Yaffe

Published in: H-0230 in 2004

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