ArtinSoft White Papers

The following White Papers provide useful information regarding migration projects, goals and needs.

Migrating Away From Compliance Quicksand

This white paper considers the latest developments regarding SOX compliance and explains how organizations can ensure ongoing certification by migrating their legacy finance applications to a modern IT platform.

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A Fast Track to Software Modernization

Legacy software applications are very valuable assets. Most CIO’s and CEO’s know this, in spite of the fact that today’s balance sheets rarely show their real value. Typically, over the years large investments in intellectual capital have been imbedded in the legacy systems, but more often than not, those investments have been booked as expenses.

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Sample Mappings Using the JLCA Companion

The JLCA Companion uses a special grammar (language) to define custom mappings. If you're a developer and would like to see some real-world examples of how this grammar is applied, please download this paper and get your doubts answered.

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Realities Of Upgrading Large Real World Applications

In this document, we answer some of the most common questions about upgrading, based on the general trends we have found in upgrading large real world applications. Some of the inquiries that we discuss are: when to re-write, migrate or leave in VB 6, learning to migrate an application and why doesn’t the Upgrade Wizard upgrade everything.

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Upgrading a Visual Basic® Application to .NET: The e-volutionVisualizer Example

This paper begins by explaining how to upgrade a Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 application to Visual Basic .NET. The main focus is on the actual upgrade process and very specific issues are explained i.e. how to handle Data Binding, Drag and Drop operations and Printer Objects. To finish, we take a look at how to enhance the application using web services and XML.

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Legacy Transformation

This report explains how automated software transformation works and proposes a strategy for assessing the suitability of existing applications for migration to modern platforms such as J2EE and .NET.

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The New Way of Doing Migration

This white paper carefully explains the difference between the traditional approach to migration (manual re-writes) and the methodology used at ArtinSoft, when an automatic migration is carried out. This paper also includes the comparative data from one of our migration projects.

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Visual Basic Upgrade Companion vs. Code Advisor

When planning a migration project with the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion (VBUC), many users ask if they should still execute the Visual Basic 6.0 Code Advisor, since VBUC automatically takes care of many of the tasks flagged by Code Advisor. This article provides a practical view focused on minimizing manual work by using both tools and taking advantage of the enhanced features of VBUC.

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