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Often, the latter migration approaches do not produce satisfactory results for complex applications. On the other hand, a manual migration will result in an application that truly "fits" onto the new platform.
The major drawback for migration projects is that they have a tendency to "evolve" into a complete rewrite. The primary reason for this is because the flow control, process control and inter-process communications mechanisms of most applications do not easily map to the newer architectures.
What Ibridge has done is combine the manual approach with the toolkit approach. The key to this library is that it maintains legacy style flow control on a modern platform. Ibridge has successfully used this approach in order to migrate complex applications without changing existing system design. In these cases, the vast majority of the existing code (which had already been tested, debugged, and commissioned years earlier) was kept.
We helped our customers to leverage the millions of dollars in software development and commissioning costs that were put into their existing applications over several years.
The software library consists of 5 parts:
- Run-Time Library Many of the more commonly used RTL routines are converted.
- String Manipulation (language conversion issue)
- Mailbox / Pipe Emulation Package (inter-process communications).
- IO Emulation Package (for asynchronous disk file operations).
- Thread control Emulation Package - allows you to mimic the control mechanisms to execute timed tasks or lengthy asynchronous tasks.
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