Presents: Rally To Java Conversion Suite

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PresentsRally To Java Conversion Suite
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Rally was an excellent tool for its environment
and its time
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Open VMS / RDB
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Rally is a well structured, easy to learn and
efficient tool.
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But in the modern world Rally environment becomes
a legacy one

• no Graphical User Interface
• no support for n-tier architecture
• sophisticated algorithms and database processing
  cases need to be maintained externally in other
  environments
• Rally will be unsupported by Oracle in the next
  year
• New VMS versions dont support Rally

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Customer alternatives

• Rewriting of the application from the scratch.

• Very costly
• Time consuming
• May lead to the loss of business logic and user
  interface investments

• Face-lifting new GUI with old Rally system as
  a back engine.

• Still needs maintenance and development in
  unsupported Rally environment
• New VMS doesnt support Rally

• Conversion as a replacement methodology

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Conversion as a replacement methodology.

• Saves all the investments in business logic.

• Opens the way to maintenance and further
  development in a new modern environment.

• Costs about ¼ from the rewriting.

• Takes just 2-4 man-months for an average
  application.

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Strategic decision Java as a target conversion
environment

• Modern and powerful language.
• Allows very flexible platform choosing
• Allows staying with current platform on server
  side for a customer interested in it (VMS and
  RDB).

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• Rally

• Conversion

• Java

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R2J Conversion steps

• Automatic generation of the full Rally
  application report.
• Automatic generation of intermediate
  xml-representation.
• Half-automatic revision of the xml-representation
  for unreported by Rally parts.
• Automatic translation of the report into a set of
  Java and XML modules.
• Manual treatment for reported in previous steps
  not matching or unsupported features.
• Fine tuning for effective database support.

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• Rally produces an application report
  including all the information about the
  application in unstructured form. Developed by
  MainTrend sophisticated parsing process
  automatically translates this report into an
  intermediate xml-representation.

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After producing the intermediate
xml-representation for the Rally application, all
the unreported points ( such as aggregate types
for aggregate fields or texts for menu items)
should be completed manually.
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Automatic generation transforms the Rally
application into four Java packages
- data access layer package- business logic
layer package- presentation layer package-
façade (control layer) package
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• Maintenance and enhancement of the resulting
  application can be easily done in the new
  environment. JDataPanel is the base for both the
  converted application and further development.
  JDataPanel graphical designer is available as a
  standalone tool and as Oracle JDeveloper Add-in.

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JDataPanel designer as Oracle JDeveloper Add-in.
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The automatic conversion part covers more then
80 of overall conversion efforts depending on
the source application.
The final step is the manual completion of the
generated code and database access fine tuning.
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R2J Conversion Suite

• The same productivity and more, in a new modern
  application.
• Customer can decide on the platform. A VMS / RDB
  based organization can proceed without a major
  change in its structure. The organization can
  but doesnt have to migrate to another platform.
• R2J provides the organization with a much lower
  cost and fast solution to their legacy
  applications.
• The applications can be further developed by our
  GUI designing tools and framework alongside and
  integrated with the most cutting-edge commercial
  development tools.

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Thank you!