In this paper we discuss how some limitations of current reverse engineering approaches prevent them from recovering architectures effectively from legacy systems. We classify several reverse engineering tools and systems into five distinct frameworks. We then propose a set of requirements for an effective architecture recovery framework which benefits from the main features of those five frameworks and tries to overcome their identified limitations. 1
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