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	Table of Contents

Modernizing Legacy Systems: Software Technologies, Engineering Processes, and Business Practices
By Robert  C.  Seacord, Daniel  Plakosh, Grace  A.  Lewis
Publisher	: Addison Wesley
Pub Date	: February 14, 2003
ISBN	: 0-321-11884-7
Pages	: 352

		Copyright
		Preface
			Audience
			Organization and Content
			Acknowledgments
		Chapter 1.   The Legacy Crisis
			Section 1.1.   Modernization Challenges
			Section 1.2.   How Did We Get Here?
			Section 1.3.   The Legacy Crisis
			Section 1.4.   Evolving Legacy Systems
			Section 1.5.   Software Reengineering
			Section 1.6.   Incremental Development and Deployment
			Section 1.7.   Summary
			Section 1.8.   For Further Reading
		Chapter 2.   The Beast
			Section 2.1.   The Retail Supply System
			Section 2.2.   Recent History
			Section 2.3.   Summary
		Chapter 3.   Risk-Managed Modernization
			Section 3.1.   Risk Management
			Section 3.2.   Summary
		Chapter 4.   Developing the Business Case
			Section 4.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 4.2.   Identify Stakeholders
			Section 4.3.   Understand Requirements
			Section 4.4.   RSS Requirements
			Section 4.5.   Create a Business Case
			Section 4.6.   The RSS Business Case
			Section 4.7.   Summary
			Section 4.8.   For Further Reading
		Chapter 5.   Understanding the Legacy System
			Section 5.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 5.2.   The Context for Program Understanding: The Horseshoe Model
			Section 5.3.   Reconstruction
			Section 5.4.   Architecture Reconstruction
			Section 5.5.   Issues
			Section 5.6.   Summary
			Section 5.7.   For Further Reading
		Chapter 6.   Architecture Representation
			Section 6.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 6.2.   Purpose of Architecture Representation
			Section 6.3.   Architecture Representation Requirements
			Section 6.4.   Architectural Views
			Section 6.5.   Additional Considerations
			Section 6.6.   Summary
			Section 6.7.   For Further Reading
		Chapter 7.   Languages and Data Management
			Section 7.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 7.2.   COBOL
			Section 7.3.   Java
			Section 7.4.   Data Repositories
			Section 7.5.   Data Representations for Information Exchange
			Section 7.6.   Summary
		Chapter 8.   Transaction Technology
			Section 8.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 8.2.   Distributed Communication
			Section 8.3.   Transactions
			Section 8.4.   Distributed Transactional Operations
			Section 8.5.   Comparison of Transactional Models
			Section 8.6.   Standards
			Section 8.7.   Products
			Section 8.8.   Summary
		Chapter 9.   Software Infrfastructure
			Section 9.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 9.2.   Enterprise JavaBeans
			Section 9.3.   Message-Oriented Middleware
			Section 9.4.   Java 2 Enterprise Edition
			Section 9.5.   XML Messaging
			Section 9.6.   Summary
		Chapter 10.   Maintaining Transactional Context
			Section 10.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 10.2.   Model Problem: Retail Supply System
			Section 10.3.   Contingency Planning
			Section 10.4.   Definition of the Model Problem
			Section 10.5.   Solution of the Model Problem
			Section 10.6.   Evaluation
			Section 10.7.   Summary
		Chapter 11.   Business Object Integration
			Section 11.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 11.2.   A Tale of Two Architectures
			Section 11.3.   Quality Attributes
			Section 11.4.   Summary
		Chapter 12.   Target Architecture
			Section 12.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 12.2.   Forces Affecting the Architecture
			Section 12.3.   Overview of the Architecture
			Section 12.4.   Architectural Patterns
			Section 12.5.   Summary
		Chapter 13.   Architecture Transformation
			Section 13.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 13.2.   Data Adapters
			Section 13.3.   Logic Adapters
			Section 13.4.   Architecture Transformation Strategy
			Section 13.5.   Componentization Trail Maps
			Section 13.6.   Use of Adapters in RSS
			Section 13.7.   Summary
		Chapter 14.   System Preparation
			Section 14.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 14.2.   Analysis of Alternatives
			Section 14.3.   Summary
		Chapter 15.   Code and Data Migration
			Section 15.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 15.2.   Structural Analysis
			Section 15.3.   Code Migration Plan
			Section 15.4.   Data Migration Plan
			Section 15.5.   Summary
		Chapter 16.   Integrated Plan
			Section 16.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 16.2.   Reconciliation Objectives
			Section 16.3.   Reconciliation Plan
			Section 16.4.   Stakeholder Priorities
			Section 16.5.   Stakeholder Ideal Profiles
			Section 16.6.   Stakeholder Consensus Meetings
			Section 16.7.   Code-Migration Prioritization Results
			Section 16.8.   Summary
		Chapter 17.   Resource Estimation
			Section 17.1.   Where Are We?
			Section 17.2.   Cost Estimation Overview
			Section 17.3.   Costing an Increment
			Section 17.4.   Estimation of Cost and Duration
			Section 17.5.   Costing the Preparation Work
			Section 17.6.   Costing the Final Database Migration
			Section 17.7.   Data Collection
			Section 17.8.   Summary
			Section 17.9.   For Further Reading
		Chapter 18.   Recommendations
			Section 18.1.   Find a Better Way
			Section 18.2.   Use Commercial Components
			Section 18.3.   Manage Complexity
			Section 18.4.   Develop and Deploy Incrementally
			Section 18.5.   Software Engineering Skills
			Section 18.6.   Component-Centric Approach
			Section 18.7.   Architecture-Centric Approach
			Section 18.8.   High Levels of Concurrent Development
			Section 18.9.   Continuous Integration
			Section 18.10.   Risk-Managed Development
			Section 18.11.   Final Word
		References
		Acronyms