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	<h1><font color='#280882'>Mo</font><font color='#C88C19'>Disco</font> Home page</h1>
	<h3>Welcome</h3>
	<p align="JUSTIFY">
Legacy systems embrace a large number of technologies, making the development of tools to cope with legacy 
systems evolution a tedious and time consuming task.

As modernization projects face with both technologies combination and various modernization situations,
 model-driven approaches and tools offer the requisite abstraction level to build up mature and flexible
 modernization solutions. 

 	<h2>What is MoDisco? </h2>

MoDisco provides an extensible framework to develop model-driven tools to support use-cases of existing software modernization :
<ul>
	<li>
    Quality Assurance: verifying whether an existing system meets the required qualities (detection of anti-patterns in existing code and computation of metrics.)
    </li>
    <li>
    Documentation: extraction of information from an existing system to help understanding one aspect of this system (structure, behaviour, persistence, data-flow, change impact , etc).
    </li>
    <li>
    Improvement: transformation of an existing system to integrate better coding norms or design patterns.
    </li>
    <li>
    Migration: transformation of an existing system to change a component, the framework, the language, or its architecture
    </li>
</ul>
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<img align="center" src="resources/Modisco-Overview.PNG" alt="MoDisco Overview"/>
In each case, modernizing an existing software system implies:
<ul>
	<li>
	Describing the information extracted out of the artifacts of this system
    </li>
    <li>
    Understanding the extracted information in order to take the good modernization decisions
    </li>
    <li>
    Transforming this information to new artifacts facilitating the modernization (metrics, document, transformed code, ...) 
    </li>
</ul>
    
MoDisco aims at supporting these three phases by providing :
<ul>
	<li>
	Metamodels to describe existing systems
    </li>
    <li>
    Discoverers to automaticaly create models of these systems
    </li>
    <li>
    Generic tools to understand and transform complex models created out of existing systems
    </li>
    <li>
    Use-cases illustrating how MoDisco can support modernization process 
    </li>
</ul>
    
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    			The MoDisco project has been initiated and originally developed in the context of the <a href="http://www.modelplex.org">IST European MODELPLEX project</a> (MODELing solution for comPLEX software systems, FP6-IP 34081).
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    			<a href="http://www.modelplex.org"> <img align="right" src="./resources/modelplexLogo.JPG"/> </a>
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	<a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco#Description">more about MoDisco &raquo;</a> 
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