The principle of our modernization solutions is to build models from the source code of the applications to modernize. These models, describing the existing applications at a very fine grained level (up to algorithms, GUI structure and parameter files) are transformed into the format corresponding to the modernization need : documentation, UML models or new code.

 

These solutions are based on source code analysers provided by Mia-Insight and Eclipse/MoDisco and on model transformation mechanisms provided by Mia-Studio.

 

The openess of Mia-Studio, with transformations driven by rules, allows us to propose three kinds of modernization solution:

 

• Quality Analysis : Standards control and metrics computation
• Knowledge Discovery : Creation of UML models from existing applications
• Application Refactoring : Transformation of existing application source code

 

These solutions are available through Mia-Software professional services.

From source files, it is possible to write and apply some rules that evaluate a part or all the application. This result obtained by applying the user specific measure analysis:

• Anti-pattern detection
• Evaluation of component types
• Maintainability metric calculations
• etc.

From the information extracted out of the source files, you can build any kind of model (UML or DSL) that describes your application from specific points of view :

• Architecture layers
• Dependencies between components
• Persistance strategies
• Design patterns
• etc.

The information extracted out of the source files can be modified by applying rules and regenerated to reflect new coding rules or design patterns :

• Swing to RCP
• Swing to GWT
• Dao to Hibernate
• EJB2.x to EJB3.0
• Struts to JSF
• etc.