MVC Frameworks Modernization Approach
Amine Moutaouakkil, Samir Mbarki · International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications · 2019
The use of web development frameworks has grown significantly, specially the Model-View-Controller (MVC) based frameworks. The ability to immigrate web applications between different frameworks available becomes more and more relevant. The automation of the migration through transformations avoid the necessity to rewrite the code entirely. Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM) is the most successful approach that standardizes and automates the reengineering process. In this paper, we define an ADM approach to generate MVC web applications models in the highest level of abstraction from Struts 2 and Codeignitter Models. To do this, we add the MVC concepts to the KDM metamodel and then we specify a set of transformations to generate MVC KDM models. This proposal is validated through the use of our approach to transform CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) applications models from MVC frameworks to MVC KDM.