Process and tools for migrating legacy applications
The Challenge
Many of the migrations performed by Sodifrance consist of transforming existing client-server applications to JEE or .NET environment. The technology of the source application is frequently based on a proprietary language no longer supported by its author. Examples of these languages, mainly created in the 1990s, are VB6, OracleForms, Forte, Cool:Gen, NSDK, Natstar, and PowerBuilder. Most of these languages are procedural as opposed to object-oriented.
The applications written in these languages are mostly based on a two-tiered architecture. The first tier (the server) is frequently a database containing stored procedures, or a mainframe application. The second tier (the client) ...
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