Reverse Engineering Encapsulated Components from Object-Oriented Legacy Code

Abstract

Current component-directed reverse engineering approaches extract ADL-based components from legacy systems. ADL-based components need to be configured atcode level for reuse, they cannot provide re-deposition after composition for future reuse and they cannot provide flexible re-usability as one has to bind all the ports in order to compose them. This paper proposes a solution to these issues by extracting X-MAN components from legacy systems. In this paper, we explain our component model and mapping from object-oriented code to X-MAN clusters using basic scenarios of our rule base