WEB SERVICES SOA) MIGRATIONS

Accumulated over the last 40 years, enterprise’s legacy systems remain critical to business. Abandonment of these systems is in many cases inconceivable given the degree of investment that has taken place in the development of these systems and given the critical nature of the functionality provided by them. Yet for various reasons these systems have become inflexible to changing business requirements and lack the agility to keep pace with a dynamic and ever-changing business environments.

This rigidity and implacability to change was an unintended consequence of the speed of innovation and the clamber to computerize business processes that took place during the 70’s and 80’s. Technology has continued to evolve and mature culminating in the current SOA standard which holds the promise of liberating closed and restricted legacy systems and bringing these into the fold of contemporary and open information technology.

Service oriented architecture is not so much a set of technologies as much as it is a set of architectural principles. SOA proposes the interconnection of reusable building blocks via standard interfaces. SOA promises to enable the rapid assembly of integrated business solutions from standards-based services. These services exploit, non-invasively, the best practices embodied in the heterogeneous applications across the enterprise and, sometimes, beyond the firewall.

Micro Focus provides technology that enables legacy COBOL systems to participate in the new SOA world as Direct COBOL Web Services.  This technology is provided by Enterprise server that is a scalable, managed and high-performance transactional environment for the deployment of COBOL applications and Services, COBOL/J2EE applications and direct COBOL Web Services.

MigrationWare has developed specialist technology designed to facilitate the migration of legacy COBOL/CICS system to an SOA architecture using Micro Focus Enterprise Server. As Micro Focus distributors and development partners, MigrationWare provides both technology and services.