Re-CMS

Abstract

The necessity for evolving existing Web applications has become one of the major problems faced by organizations. Content Management Systems (CMS) have proved to be the best platforms to manage huge amounts of digital content in a reliable manner. Thus, many organizations have experienced the necessity of migrating their legacy Web applications to these CMS platforms which meet their needs better. Model-driven reengineering methods have shown their efficiency in such kind of evolution and migration processes, but they only become effective when they are automated by using appropriate tools. This work presents the RE-CMS toolkit, a toolkit that automates a model-driven reengineering method defined for the migration of traditional Web applications to CMS platforms. The RE-CMS toolkit supports the extraction of knowledge from a Web application and its representation within a CMS domain from which a modern CMSbased Web application may be generated. To validate its usability, we present a case study where a traditional Web application is migrated to Wordpress, one of the most used CMS platforms.