What does it mean to Web Enable Enterprise Legacy applications? While there are many issues involved in Web-enabling legacy applications they can generally be grouped in two categories: providing broader, secure Web browser based access to legacy hosts and delivering a more familiar and modern graphical, browser-like look and feel.

For businesses that need to transition or enhance their monolithic legacy applications to a more agile environment where they can mix and match business logic into new applications, Crystal Point’s "transition by stages" solution using AppViewXS 2.0 and the Struts Framework provides a solid answer.

In what sense are many of today's systems legacies? If the system's architecture is not current by trade press standards, it not always a legacy by Computer Dictionary standards. It may in fact be a very effective system, a real legacy. Is it sensible to scrap a perfectly useful system just to change the look and feel?

Market statistics make it clear that text-based applications continue to dominate a large number of computer terminal screens worldwide and will do so for at least the next several years to come. And a cursory glance at the sales figures of mainframes suggests they won't disappear anytime soon either.