Migration from Legacy Systems to SOA Applications: A Survey and an Evaluation

Abstract

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a mainstream approach for modern software development. This is mainly because SOA helps increase software maintainability and reusability. Consequently, most enterprises feel the need to migrate their legacy systems to SOA applications. This paper provides guidelines for migrating from legacy systems to SOA applications. After an assessment of legacy systems, a detailed feasibility analysis and evaluation of the process of migration is discussed. Several existing migration approaches are presented and examined with the main processes and tools of each approach captured and analyzed. The existing approaches are compared based on their key features. The comparative analysis provided businesses a framework for creating a suitable tailor-made approach based on the existing approaches. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.