I have an established character app running on SCO Unix. I've been asked to estimate the level of effort that would be involved in converting 1 data entry screen to a web front end. Others in my organization have experience as .net developers with web front ends that talk to sql back ends. Assuming that they can develop the front end "screen" and that I can extract the "business logic", how much effort canI expect to have to expend just getting the separate components to communicate? What else is involved that I'm not aware of? Has anyone done this before?
Thanks in advance --
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It is almost impossible to give an answer as no one (except you, presumably) knows how complex the screen is and how tied in to the UI the business logic portion is.. The tighter the logic is tied to the UI, (generally) the more difficult it is to extract. A lot also depends on how much WebSpeed experience you have (or any other stateless programming for that matter)..