Abstract: A legacy application may be executed as a Web Service by receiving from a client application a request comprising application input data that includes target legacy program identifying information and a template identifier, loading the specified template, translating the input data into a data format compatible with the application, executing the application and translating the output data for transmission to the client application. The template corresponds to the legacy application and comprises metadata describing the application flow and the required input data and output data for the application.

Abstract: In general, techniques are described that facilitate the reuse of software assets within an enterprise. A software asset, as used herein, refers to a set of one or more related artifacts that have been created or harvested for the purpose of applying that asset repeatedly in subsequent development environments. A system, for example, is described that includes a repository to store artifacts, and an asset source to generate a software asset based on the artifacts. The system further includes an asset management system to receive the software asset from the asset source and store the software asset within an asset library. The system may further include a model having one or more elements, and an asset retrieval module to selectively retrieve a subset of the software assets from the asset library based on input from a user identifying one or more of the elements.