Creating Web Services from Legacy Code

Over the past two decades, lots of people have forecast that legacy systems would soon be a craze of the history. In bare disparity, companies are now apprehending greater repayment from their legacy systems as they tie them to distributed systems. However, companies face quite a lot of major disputes in managing their legacy systems in these rapidly changing environments. The role of web services in migration of legacy systems to service-oriented architecture is of extreme importance for research field. Web Services are software system designed to support interoperable machineto-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface designed in a format that systems can work upon. In this paper, an emphasis has been laid onto the study of web services and their role in context to extraction of several components from legacy systems.