Mauro Carniel

Before describing solutions available for rich client application development, it would be a good idea to explain what exactly a rich client application is and which rich client topologies can feasibly be built using the Java platform. In the main, a rich client is a part of a software system that contains a user interface (UI) and whose front end is "rich," i.e., the user interface has rich graphical content and is highly interactive; a rich client application is also called a desktop application, since it provides content and functionalities that are usually provided by applications on the desktop of your own PC (access to local resources, complex user interface, the capability to connect to remote services, etc.). Enterprise applications are an example of application... (more)

Developing Rich Client Applications Using Swing - II

In Part 1 of this article, I introduced rich client development, available architectures for developing rich client applications based on the Swing toolkit, and technologies that could be used to make development more productive. In this second part, I'll compare the most popular IDEs and evaluate them with an eye to Swing development for rich client applications. Swing-based Rich Client... (more)

Developing Rich Internet Applications Using Swing

The Java development platform always provides limited support for application development based on a graphical user interface, an area where more traditional languages and integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Visual Basic or Delphi have based their success. Today the Java SE distribution offers essentially the same features it offered in 1999 with regards to Java graphical c... (more)