Method and system of business rule extraction from existing applications for integration into new applications

A system for extracting and transforming a business rule from an existing program to a new application, comprising:

• means for identifying and locating business rule code in an existing program and for backtracking through the existing code to extract only the portion of the existing code making up portions of the business rule desired to be extracted;
• means for extracting the business rule in human readable code form from the business rule code in the existing program;
• means for generating code for the new application for containing the business rule therein;
• and
• means for integrating the code for the new application into the new application.

A method of extracting and transforming a business rule from an existing program to a new application, comprising:

• identifying the business rule;
• locating all of the business rule code in the existing program by analysis with a graphical editor, identifying points of origin and boundaries of the business rule code in the existing program, and backtracking through the existing code to extract only the portions of the existing code making up the portions of the business rule desired to be extracted;
• extracting the business rule in human readable code form from the business rule code in the existing program;
• generating code for the new application containing the business rule therein;
• and
• integrating the code containing the business rule into the new application.