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The legacy of mainframe terminal applications has generally limited the complexity level in desktop applications’ user interfaces. Nevertheless the apparition of the new Internet-related technologies is driving to the migration of traditional desktop applications into the web to benefit from the internet technology services. However, GUI’s modernization is a new software engineering field that requires a thorough analysis to build and preserve the important characteristics and functionality of the user interfaces. It provides support for transforming existing system’s user interfaces to new ones that satisfy new demands. In this work, we have focused on the Architecture-driven modernization ADM approach as a best solution for the legacy system’s evolution. The OMG ADM Task Force defines a set of standards to facilitate interoperability between modernization tools. We cite the Knowledge Discovery Metamodel and Abstract Syntax Tree Metamodel. For our work, these two standards will help us to capture design knowledge needed for the construction of modern Nooj user interfaces. We present along this work a reengineering of Nooj application GUIs. We explain its migration process to transform the old desktop GUIs into modern ones respecting web technologies. The process consists of a deep analysis that affects both the structural and behavioral aspects of a GUI, and sophisticated reverse engineering algorithms that must be designed to cope with it.
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Gotti, Z., Mbarki, S., Gotti, S., Laaz, N. (2018). Nooj Graphical User Interfaces Modernization. In: Mbarki, S., Mourchid, M., Silberztein, M. (eds) Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ and Its Natural Language Processing Applications. NooJ 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 811. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73420-0_19
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