Refactoring Java Monoliths into Executable Microservice-Based Applications

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2021

Authors

Freitas, F (Author) Other; Ferreira, A (Author) Other; Cunha, J (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: SBLP

Pages: 100-107

25th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages, SBLP 2021, held in conjunction with the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice, CBSoft 2021

27 September 2021 through 1 October 2021

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Authenticus ID: P-00V-JXH

DOI: 10.1145/3475061.3475086

Abstract (EN): In the last few years we have been seeing a drastic change in the way software is developed. Large-scale software projects are being assembled by a flexible composition of many (small) components possibly written in different programming languages and deployed anywhere in the cloud - the so-called microservice-based applications. The dramatic growth in popularity of microservice-based applications has pushed several companies to apply major refactorings to their software systems. However, this is a challenging task that may take several months or even years. We propose a methodology to automatically evolve a Java monolithic application into a microservice-based one. Our methodology receives the Java code and a proposition of microservices and refactors the original classes to make each microservice independent. Our methodology creates an API for each method call to classes that are in other services. The database entities are also refactored to be included in the corresponding service. The initial evaluation shows that our tool can successfully refactor 80% of the applications tested. © 2021 ACM.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific