Description
Companies in all industries and of all sizes have expressed a growing need for migrating their existing application assets into new architectures guided by SOA concepts. The rationale is based on:
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Financial considerations (protecting investments, leveraging existing assets)
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Employee skill migrations (rather than replacing people)
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Stability (retaining operational software benefits)
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Evolutionary renewal (enabling new and emerging technologies)
The Legacy Evolution to SOA project will:
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Provide an overview of Legacy Evolution approaches in the participating member organizations
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Define a taxonomy for Legacy Evolution
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Define the outline of a Legacy Evolution method answering the most urgent industry needs, based on L2SOA and other methods available through the members
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Position Legacy Evolution within Enterprise Architecture and SOA Governance
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Define organizational and tooling requirements for the refined method phases – these requirements will be stated in a way similar to SOA Reference Architecture definitions
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Define measurements and estimating models for Legacy Evolution
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Define skill maps and education roadmaps for Legacy Evolution practitioners
Deliverables
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Open Group Guide to Evolving Legacy Systems to SOA
Latest Accomplishments
The Guide was published in April 2012.
Next Steps
The project is completed.
Standards and Drafts
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Open Group Guide to Evolving Legacy Systems to SOA
Project Co-Chairs
Joost van der Vlies
T.J. Virdi
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