I have a 3rd party client/server application, not developed by me, who needs to be accessed through Internet. I need to provide an interaction layer to do so, through a website, no matter the technique/programming language. I thought on maybe using VNC or a similar remote control software, but I’m open to any suitable solution to that.
Any thoughts?
VNC, citrix or Windows Remote Desktop might be options, if you actuall want to see the GUI.
If you prefere to make the features but available but behind a GUI of your own design, I’d try a toolkit intended for gui testing. Like this one for example: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/windowtester-pro-gui-tester
Install the application on a machine and build a web app on the same machine
A third option would be to decompile the app in order to change it. Of course this might be illegal.
Note: for many applications it would be illegal to make them available through the internet, no matter what technique you are using.