Webswing is an incredibly efficient tool that allows organizations from various industries to run their legacy desktop applications in a browser. This is especially useful for networking companies that need to administer, monitor, and manage networks, including hardware devices such as switches, routers, firewalls, printers, etc. Companies with rich history and applications developed for years are now quite stuck with the legacy code (written in Swing, JavaFX or on NetBeans platform).
If they want to move forward to the 21st century, they are required to reprogram their applications completely, otherwise they are stuck with huge tech debt. Webswing is a great time saver, as it could be used instantly without any changes in code. Also it entirely eliminates the need to update the desktop applications on each local computer and keeping track of what version of software are users currently on. Thus saving valuable time and resources.
Besides many practical use cases across various industries, we would love to point out a couple of them within the Networking industry, in which we have plenty of experience while implementing Webswing for customers all over the world.
One use case for implementing and using Webswing efficiently is in software for designing network topology. Very robust software with plenty of business logic needed to be available via web browsers to be easily used by the end users - administrators, architects and network designers. Complete redevelopment of the application into a new native web language and/or framework was off the table the moment creators realized it took years to develop business logic for the original application. Next reasonable choice was Webswing. While using Webswing administrators could use their tool for designing and visualizing their network infrastructure, all from within a browser. This has saved a significant amount of time and effort compared to the first approach.
Webswing is implemented in many companies dealing with Network administration and maintenance. No matter the scale, Webswing allows companies to run any type of legacy desktop application securely and efficiently. Administrators don’t have to carry their equipment with them anymore. With Webswing all you need to have is any workstation and a web browser. Simply putting the URL address of an application into the browser. This makes it easy for administrators to access and manage their networks from anywhere, at any time.
From our experience Webswing has become particularly useful for operators of telephone and internet networks. These operators often have legacy applications that are robust and complex, but may be difficult to maintain and update.
Although Webswing provides an elegant solution to run client’s legacy desktop applications in web browsers very swiftly and without changing a single line of code, we understand that the future is somewhere else. That is why we came up with the Webswing Migration Framework.
The Webswing Migration Framework provides a solution for migrating legacy desktop applications to new native web languages and frameworks.
The Webswing Migration Framework, particularly its step-by-step migration, provides an approach to combine e.g. JavaScript with Java Graphic User Interface (GUI) and let them coexist for a required amount of time until the migration process is finished completely. This approach allows companies to use their verified and functioning applications, while their users benefit from a new interface being built gradually over the time. This approach brings enormous time and financial savings and we recommend checking the step-by-step approach in our article dedicated to Webswing Migration Framework.
Webswing essentially transforms technological debt to advantage - an even more robust legacy application will start to behave like a modern app, without the common bugs of an immature new application.
Nevertheless, there are countless use cases in which Webswing plays a huge role. Webswing became a valuable tool for organizations that rely on legacy desktop applications. Technology itself, but also supportive applications like Webswing Migration Framework or Webswing Test Tool provide enormous time and financial savings, while also making it easy for companies to implement and use our technology.
