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Rally to Java Conversion System. Demo Applet ( or download it if your firewall does not allow applets )

Rally 4GL for rapid application development was adopted by many enterprises for their vertical application development in the late 1980's and early 1990's. In the context for which it was created Rally was a formidable tool that allowed development of applications in the Open VMS environment for text-based systems. Many enterprises and organizations built their mission critical systems with Rally. Many man-years of code were invested in this 4GL tool. There was almost no investment in GUI, being that GUI was nonexistent. Enterprises invested heavily in the business logic in their applications. But now Rally applications have became legacy ones.

Currently enterprises are gradually moving over to new technologies. GUI based operating systems, the Internet, Mobile computing, e-commerce and other forces require businesses to move forward. Hardware maintenance costs of old architectures are expensive and suppliers are discontinuing services and maintenance contracts. Professional personnel are hard to find to support old technologies. Users are demanding seamless integration of legacy systems with new technologies.

Moving to another platform is probably strategically correct but there are a number of factors to be considered. One major consideration is an enterprise’s investment in the legacy applications and significant cost of new application development. Another consideration is how to ensure a rapid and smooth migration path from one infrastructure to another without disturbing critical systems, specifically how to integrate the new with the old.

Rally to Java is a software engine toolset and methodology that will take an application coded in Rally and generate Java application source code with minimal need for a programmer intrusion.

Java has proven itself to be a superior technology as a modern business application tool. Moving to Java is a strategic decision for an enterprise, a decision to make another step to the future.

An enterprise that decides it wants to migrate to a friendly development environment will use Rally to Java as its conversion tool. The business logic will be maintained. Changes and enhancements will be done on the new code.

This will not be a face-lift of an existing application. This will be the same complete application built on a new platform.