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An important problem that many large organizations face today concerns the support and evolution of their large (legacy) information systems. In this paper we present an approach for migrating large and interdependent legacy information systems to CORBA based platforms. Our approach allows continuous availability of the information systems, minimal manpower for the implementation and preservation of the autonomy of the independent information systems. The information systems of ABB AG serve as case study for the presentation of our approach.
This project was supported by the Swiss Federal Government by the SPP-ICS 1992–1995 project “CHASSIS” (project number 5003-34355/2), and the FNRS project “Object Integration” (Project Number 20-40592.94).
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Konstantas, D. (1996). Migration of legacy applications to a CORBA platform: a case study. In: Schill, A., Mittasch, C., Spaniol, O., Popien, C. (eds) Distributed Platforms. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34947-3_9
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