Innovative Operating Software

"In this project we aim at conversion of legacy codes into structures that facilitate software upgrades and improves life cycle costs. As a step towards restructuring, we propose to develop tools for automatically annotate code through embedding of markupcontent within comments. Once code has been annotated, it lends itself to automation of analysis and transformation using a wide range of XML tools, including some validation, stylesheet transformation, automatic documentation, code translation, and somedegree of inference. Using DAML+OIL/OWL markup brings to bear the entire body of knowledge developed for the Semantic Web. Our approach is based on parsing the source code to automatically extract information without human intervention. For each groupof source files, a group of XML files is generated, which may contain empty elements as place holders for transformation instructions. Once these elements are populated, code transformation engines execute those instructions to automatically generaterevised code. The transformation may result in extraction of code subsets into system scripts, web scripts, Java or C++, or even new versions of the code which include helper functions and interface code. The transformation engine enables various levelsof event logging and ensure complete traceability back to the source. The automated markup of source code enables a wide range of automated processes. It will spur a new generation of s