Choosing a Strategy and Developing Tactics
The ideal migration solution incorporates a number of the strategies listed in this chapter, where appropriate. Each of the strategies identified in the preceding section has a number of closely aligned supporting techniques. The selection of a strategy will define the obvious and most effective technique, but it might need to be supplemented with techniques more appropriate to other strategies.
The following table summarizes the strong alignments of particular migration techniques with the migration strategies.
| Strategy | Complementary Technique |
|---|---|
| Refronting | Redeveloping, reverse engineering, source code porting |
| Replacement | Reverse engineering |
| Rehosting | Source code porting, ... |
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