Rich Client advice

Hi all,

Been searching the archives.

I've developed a Swing standalone app and would like to convert it into a "Rick Client" but shifting certain parts over to a backend. My initial work has been a servlet on Tomcat webserver I maintain.

Can anyone point me to any up-to-date examples or Rich Client development?

Is the use of http requests/responses the standard way to do this or are there non-servlet examples?

There seem to be so many frameworks for this (Eclipse RC, Spring RC etc.)

Many thanks.

[544 byte] By [ClothEarsa] at [2007-10-3 3:10:09]
# 1
Hi,I've some experience with Eclipse RCP, on this site you can find some tutorials: http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-RCP-1/tutorial1.htmlHowever I don't know whether it will be the best for you because I haven't tried other of these systems.L.P.
lukika at 2007-7-14 21:00:55 > top of Java-index,Desktop,Core GUI APIs...
# 2

Thanks for the pointer. I will look at the tutorials.

I guess what I really want to know is what do people use as the most "vanilla"/non-framework communication between a Rich Client and a backend server.

Do the back ends tend to be servlets/JSPs or WebServices or what?

Thanks again.

Chris

ClothEarsa at 2007-7-14 21:00:55 > top of Java-index,Desktop,Core GUI APIs...