Migration of a Chosen Architectural Pattern to Service Oriented ...

Chapter 6. Conclusion 150RQ.8 What are the drawback and advantages of the new technique ?Information about advantages and drawbacks is presented in section 5.5.3.The most important advantage is that the guidelines consider architectural patternsapplied in migrated architecture. The most significant drawback is limitationof application. The guidelines are applicable only for systems that do notuse functions provided by MVC supporting frameworks.The elaborated guidelines are implementation of White–Box technique. Themost important advantage of the guidelines is solution for the drawback that thatexist in identified White–Box, Grey–Box and Black–Box techniques, namely “Thetechnique does not consider architectural patterns that are applied in architectureof migrated systems”.6.3 Future worksThe example system that was used for illustrating application of the guidelineswas small. This was caused by problem of availability of candidate projects. Theelaborated guidelines should be applied for migration of other systems in orderto validate them and propose improvements.The elaborated guidelines provide a migration technique only for MVC architecturalpattern, but the target architecture can be classified as Process–EnabledSOA (see 5.5.2). This architecture could also be applicable for other migrations.Future researches could modify the guidelines in order to adjust them other architecturalpatterns. At the beginning for other patterns belonging to the samecategory as MVC (see table 3.3 for categories and patterns).Finally, elaborated technique of migration is a list of subsequent steps thatintroduce additional elements into architecture. The technique is systematic andit known how the architecture changes after each guideline. This property can beused in future in order to implement a framework supporting the migration.6.4 SummaryThe contribution the thesis is the list of guidelines that are applicable for migrationof systems based on MVC architectural pattern toward Service OrientedArchitecture. The target architecture and the migrated architecture are based onarchitectural pattern. Pattern encapsulate proven solutions, thus they increasequality of architecture. Additionally, the target architecture, the next outcomeof the thesis is expressed as a pattern language that can be used to describe alsoother target systems.