Orion-RE: A Component-Based Software Reengineering Environment

Software reuse is the process of implementing or updating software systems using existing software assets, resulting in a software quality increase, productivity and reducing time to market. One way to achieve reuse is through software reengineering. This papers presents Orion-RE, a Component-Based Software Reengineering Environment that uses software reengineering and component-based development techniques to rebuilt legacy systems, reusing their available documentation and knowledge embedded in the code.

Orion-RE integrates several tools: a software transformation system, modeling/development tools, a software artifacts repository, and a middleware platform. A software process model drives the environment usage through the reverse engineering, to recover the system design, and forward engineering, where the system is rebuilt using modern technologies, such as design patterns, frameworks, CBD principles and middleware.