Mauro Carniel is an architect at Tecnoinformatica Group. He has more than 9 years of enterprise software development experience utilizing J2EE-based technologies, including JSP, JSF, Swing, EJB. He started focusing more on GUI-based client/server Java applications since 1998. He has a MSc in Information Technology from University of Udine, Italy.
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 ...Mar. 7, 2009 11:00 PM EST Reads: 14,104
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...
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.
