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Franck Fleurey, Erwan Breton, Benoit Baudry, Alain Nicolas, and Jean-Marc Jézéquel (2007)
Model-Driven Engineering for Software Migration in a Large Industrial Context
In: MoDELS'07, Nashville, TN, USA.
As development techniques, paradigms and platforms evolve far more
quickly than domain applications, software modernization and migration,
is a constant challenge to software engineers. For more than ten
years now, the Sodifrance company has been intensively using Model-Driven
Engineering (MDE) for both development and migration projects. In
this paper we report on the use of MDE as an efficient, flexible
and reliable approach for a migration process (reverse-engineering,
transformation and code generation). Moreover, we discuss how MDE
is economically
profitable and is cost-effective over the migration through out-sourced
manual re-development. The paper is illustrated with the migration
of a large-scale banking system from Mainframe to J2EE.