Migrate Java Applet to what/where?

Question

I am reviewing currently a medium size code base (around 30K LOC) which uses a huge Applet and interfaces with other systems.

It's a tool to create custom labels, so we need drag-n-drop and other related UI components.

To which technogly will you migrate given the code base is in Java.

• Applet -- No
• Java FX -- Adoption rate is too low
• GWT -- Refactoring is not easy

Any ideas/suggestions.

Answer 1

Why do you need to migrate this ? Because of drag-n-drop ?

Perhaps you should look at running it as a stand-alone Java application and use Java Web Start to serve it up. I think the coding changes should be minimal to convert it from an applet.

Answer 2

Use AjaxSwing to automatically convert your applet to web application. You may have to write your own drag and drop but you'd have to do it with any other framework. At least you get the rest without doing any coding.

http://ajaxswing.com