Architecture Restructuring To Support Evolution towards Service-Oriented Architectures

The evolution of software systems and system land- scapes towards service-oriented architectures is a widely discussed topic. Flexibility is a frequently named goal in this context. To reach this goal, complex information systems that are transfered to service-orientation have to be restructured. In prac- tice the restructuring requires a high manual eort for understanding the existing system and the den- tion of a mapping of its elements to a target architec- ture. Our model-based restructuring approach sup- ports reengineers by semi-automating this task. In this paper we describe how this approach can be ap- plied in the context of the evolution towards a service- oriented architecture.