Migrating Software Towards Mobile Technologies

Abstract

New paradigms such as pervasive computing, cloud computing, and the internet of things (IoT) are impacting the business world. Smartphones are at the core of these paradigms by allowing us interaction with the world around us. In light of this, it is imperative to migrate a lot of existing non-mobile software to adapt it to the new technological reality. The main challenge to achieve this goal is the proliferation of mobile platforms. An integration of ADM (Architecture Driven Modernization), cross-platform development and formal metamodeling to face this kind of migration is described. The proposal was validated with the migration of object-oriented software to different mobile platforms through the multiplatform language Haxe. A comparison of the approach with traditional migration processes and the description of existing challenges in real projects of the scientific and industrial field are included.

Cloud migration framework clustering method for social decision support in modernizing the legacy system

“…The legacy renovation aims to preserve the value of legacy functionality during migration. ADM is the “process of understanding and evolving existing software assets for improvement, modification, interoperability, refactoring, restructuring, reuse, porting, migration, language translation, integration into SOA and enterprise application integration.” 14 The transformation is performed when current operations do not support current business goals. The objective of ADM is the “revitalization of existing applications, that is, making existing applications more agile, leveraging existing OMG modeling standards, and using the MDE initiative to consolidate the best practices leading to successful modernization.” Further, the migration of legacy systems to clouds involves several technical and business challenges 36…”

“…13 Architecture-driven modernization (ADM) has been recommended as the best general cloud migration strategy. [14][15][16][17][18] The other cloud migration frameworks introduced in the literature are developed for their specific tasks and thus cannot be implemented by everyone. People who do not have much knowledge in deciding and selecting a cloud migration framework for their legacy system have to face the challenge of cloud modernization and migration.…”

“…Architecture‐driven modernization (ADM) has been recommended as the best general cloud migration strategy 14–18 . The other cloud migration frameworks introduced in the literature are developed for their specific tasks and thus cannot be implemented by everyone.…”