The Tools
For a given project, Sodifrance's migration chain is automated with three tools: a model discoverer, a model-to-model transformation engine, and a model-to-code generation engine.
The Model Discoverer
A model discoverer is a tool that creates a model out of artifacts of the existing system. Most of these artifacts are files containing source code. These files are analyzed by a parser developed from the BNF grammar of the language used to develop the program. Sometimes models can be created by querying a database from which the table structures are extracted. In other cases, the model is built by using APIs to connect to a development environment from which the project structure is extracted.
In each case the result is a model conforming ...
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