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Developing Rich Client Applications Using Swing - II

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:00:00 EST

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.

Developing Rich Client Applications Using Swing

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:45:00 EDT

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.

Developing Rich Internet Applications Using Swing

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:15:00 EDT

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.