New whitepaper from ARIKAN – code restructuring
APG has produced a new paper in which they discuss code restructuring as part of a reverse engineering and modernisation exercise.
Code restructuring can be done in an automated fashion only if the meaning of the code is understood, rather than a line-for-line code transformation process.
ProgGen is such a tool – it can understand the semantic meaning of the code that it parses and allow the meaning of the code to decide what restructuring can be done. The power of the code restructuring toolset is that it takes the 3GL type code – PL/1, Natural, COBOL etc and creates a metamodel out of it, which can then be used to change the paradigms and indeed the language that the transformation is directed at.
This paper can be downloaded from here.
It is really worth a look, and demonstrates the power that APG can bring to bear on your Legacy systems to modernise them and restructure them into the bargain.
