Calling existing pages from Apex

Hi,
I am working on Apex as a part of my in-house applications upgrade. At present, the intranet is written on javascript and html.
Is there a way that I can call the existing forms/reports / pages from Apex. I want to achieve that I need not re-write all the logics written, but embed already existing login into Apex screens.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Jas

So, you effectively want to embed existing (presumably custom-made) reports within the apex environment - sort of like wrapping your existing intranet in an APEX front-end?
Well, for the relevant page/report, you could create an HTML region and maybe call your existing reports via ajax methods - it would require a bit of custom javascript to achieve though. Namely it would involve invoking your remote HTML page, return the resulting HTML output into your request object, then replacing the relevant elements in the DOM with this output.
I suppose if your particular reports were too fiendishly complicated to entirely re-implement in APEX, this would be the way to go, but I have a feeling that it will require a bit of work to get going properly, indeed you could also potentially lose out on some of the benefits of using APEX (or at least, you'd be stuck with this halfway house implementation forever).
Sorry to be quite general and high-level about this, but there isn't enough detail to work with.

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