I am not very sure why they are still using it. But i think they dont want to move away from it because they think dumb terminals dont have any software maintianance costs. Also their users (500) are very much used to that environment so they dont want to change the console based interface. Now I am really at loss

on how to do this in java ...maybe i need to see their architecture first...
I am just hoping to meet someone who has been in this DT hell before...