Legacy Systems Interaction Reengineering

Abstract

We present a lightweight approach for reengineering the human computerinteraction (HCI) and/or interaction with other software systems.While interaction reengineering can be achieved by changing the sourcecode and design (e.g., library replacement, refactoring, etc.) resultingin a different user interface (UI), we limit the discussion to interactionreengineering methods that do not involve changing the source codeor internal design of the system. Instead, we focus on methods andtechniques for wrapping and packaging the existing interaction layerto reproduce it in a different format, e.g., on a different platformor to integrate the legacy system services in another applicationpossibly under a different architecture paradigm, e.g., service-orientedarchitectures (SOA).