Web-based Technologies for User Interface Rejuvenation

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. Read PDF

From Textual "Green" Screen to Terminal Screens

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. More

Turbo Charge Your Legacy Migration Project

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. More

Why Throw Away Your Legacy?

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? More