Software Archeology: What Is It and Why Should Java Developers Care? @ JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL

The term Software Archeology has been used in various forms since early 2001. The concept of Software Archeology is an approach or methodology that helps individual team members or entire teams to understand exactly what they have in the code they're going to be working on. The approach is also very useful when deconstructing an existing piece of software to find patterns of design and development that could be 'harvested' in future developments.

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