
Net-Centric Computing – Migrating to the Web

Enabling technology for supporting the migration of legacy systems to the Web was the main focus of the 3rd Workshop on Net-Centric Computing (NCC’01). Twenty-four delegates from five countries engaged in lively discussions centered around nine papers grouped in the three “D-areas”:  legacy system Decomposition, Development, and Deployment. In summary, the participants agreed that (a) in practice, Decomposition is determined by multiple non-functional requirements that might be partially contradicting; (b) Development techniques, like component wrapping, are fast but might potentially have negative influences on the maintainability of the migrated systems; and (c) dynamic reconfiguration techniques are increasingly important in the Deployment of Net-Centric Systems. The organizers will publish a more comprehensive summary online at 
http://mulford.cs.ucr.edu/stilley/ncc2001 and elsewhere.

— Jens H. Jahnke
