From GWT to Angular: An Experiment Report on Migrating a Legacy Web Application

Verhaeghe, Benoit; Shatnawi, Anas; Seriai, Abderrahmane; Etien, Anne; Anquetil, Nicolas; Derras, Mustapha; Ducasse, Stephane

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1109/MS.2021.3101249

Title :

From GWT to Angular: An Experiment Report on Migrating a Legacy Web Application

Author(s) :

Verhaeghe, Benoit [Auteur]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Berger-Levrault
Shatnawi, Anas [Auteur]
Berger-Levrault
Seriai, Abderrahmane [Auteur]
Berger-Levrault
Etien, Anne [Auteur]

Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Anquetil, Nicolas [Auteur]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Derras, Mustapha [Auteur]
Berger-Levrault
Ducasse, Stephane [Auteur]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]

Journal title :

IEEE Software

Publisher :

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Publication date :

2021

ISSN :

0740-7459

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Langage de programmation [cs.PL]

English abstract : [en]

Berger-Levrault is an international company that developed applications in GWT for more than 10 years. However, GWT is no longer actively maintained, with only one major update since 2015. To avoid being stuck with legacy ...
Show more >Berger-Levrault is an international company that developed applications in GWT for more than 10 years. However, GWT is no longer actively maintained, with only one major update since 2015. To avoid being stuck with legacy technology, the company decided to migrate its applications to Angular. However, because of the size of the applications (more than 500 web pages per application), rewriting from scratch is not desirable. To ease the migration, we designed a semi-automated migration approach that helps developers migrate applications' front-end from GWT to Angular and a tool that performs the migration. In this paper, we present our approach and tool. We validated the approach on concrete application migration and compared its benefits to redeveloping the application manually. We report that the semi-automated migration offers an effort reduction over a manual migration. Finally, we present recommendations for future migration projects.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

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