Framework For Legacy Application Modernization

Abstract

In the modern business world there is a huge increase of problems and difficulties that users face due to existing aging applications. This is caused by many reasons like high cost of legacy system maintenance, demand for higher performance, discontinuation of support for previous technologies, difficulty of finding skills in older technologies, new requirements, lack of competitive advantage etc. With the growth of this problem it came to known as the Legacy Crisis in industry.

So, it was identified that the only solution left for this is the Application Modernization and many parties have come up with different solutions. Though they solved the problem up to some extent it introduced some other issues like these solutions are specific to one or two technologies, very high in cost, effort and time consuming, less flexibility etc. Taking this situation into consideration, this project “Framework for Legacy Application Modernization” is proposed and done with the intention of introducing a standard and generalized framework for application modernization, which can be used as the underlying foundation for any kind of application modernization project. Further, this project includes a prototype implementation of a symbolic Project Tracking System to resemble how project tracking should be done in such modernization projects.