[gschrader]

Legacy systems that haven't migrated to some other front end yet. There would be a lot of companies in this situation. That said, I'm not convinced this is the best approach. I think I'd prefer rewriting parts at a time of a system that big.

[ramses0]

Think bigger. Start a consulting company that just runs around and recompiles all people's old Java Swing crap into "web apps" like this one. Charge $10-50k / pop.

Get on the consulting gravy train by somehow allowing piecemeal callouts to "real dom" (kindof like an IFRAME from within JAVA) which lets you start rewriting bits and pieces into some angular.next framework.

By the time you finish converting the majority of their Swing to Angular conversion, angular will finally be deprecated (or dart-only, lulz) and you can set yourself up with a new and improved consulting company which will convert Angular to React as soon as the Java to Angular contract finishes up!

/s

[CamperBob2]

Sounds like a great instance of the old adage "Consulting: If you can't be part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."

[beachy]

Consultants: people who borrow your watch to tell you the time.

[wolco]

and charge you for it