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From GWT to Angular: An Experiment Report on Migrating a Legacy Web Application

Sté́phane Ducasse Nicolas Anquetil Anne Etien Anas Shatnawi Mustapha Derras Benoît Verhaeghe

IEEE Software
Jul 29, 2021
IEEE Computer Society

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Because Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is no longer actively maintained, Berger-Levrault decided to migrate its applications to Angular. We designed a semiautomated migration approach that helps developers migrate applications’ front ends from GWT to Angular and a tool that performs the migration.

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DOI: 10.1109/ms.2021.3101249
OpenAlex: W3188152090
Document type: article
Language: EN
Source: IEEE Software
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