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For the past six years I've been engaged in a project to re-engineer a legacy enterprise IT system of a large international bank. The company still had applications with host terminal emulation that were to be replaced with Windows- and Web-based client applications. The host system was completed based on legacy applications that evolved since the 1970s. Any new applications had to interoperate with the existing legacy applications. A strategy to replace difficult-to-maintain legacy applications with new applications was implemented. Within these constraints, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) was introduced into the existing system. The dependency on the interfaces, performance, and transaction scopes of the legacy system prohibited any change to, or mixing with, other programming languages. All host applications were still developed in COBOL, while Windows-based... (more)