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As technology evolves, many organizations face the problem of migrating legacy applications from one technology base to another. We report on a case study involving the migration of legacy code into the IBM® WebSphere® Commerce Suite product. Specifically, we focus on the problem of migrating applications that use traditional database access techniques to applications using the Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) programming model. Our results include a practical methodology that facilitates such migration, as well as a tool that supports this methodology. The tool has been released on IBM's alphaWorks site.
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Lau, T.C., Lu, J., Mylopoulos, J. et al. The Migration of Multi-tier E-commerce Applications to an Enterprise Java Environment. Information Systems Frontiers 5, 149–160 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022697422240
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