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by Shashank Tiwari
Many enterprises and organizations are heavily invested in legacy web technologies, ranging from first-generation applets to recent HTML-based and Ajax powered user interfaces. Therefore, even if the organizations have a compelling need to adopt today's rich and engaging platforms, writing off all that investment and starting from scratch is not an option for them. Often, the preferred course is to reuse as much as possible and add bits of the newer technologies incrementally, thus gaining some benefits without disrupting existing systems that continue to work effectively.