Testdriving the Rich Client Platforms
TS-6696

This session demonstrates how different Rich Client Platforms (RCPs) affect development of Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications for the desktop. The RCPs shown in this demonstration are the Spring Rich Client, the Netbeans Platform and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. The focus of the session is to point out the difference between the RCPs from an application developer's point of view' not to discuss the inner workings of the RCPs. The advantages of each platform given different application requirements will be explored.

A simple data entry application has been developed using each of the three RCPs.

The application is developed using Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 and Java Foundation Classes (J.F.C./Swing) and deployed over the network with Java Web Start. Hibernate is used for data-access and SwingX-components to improve the GUI. The development of the application is done using Eclipse 3.1.

The knowledge attendees will take with them from this session is an overview of what the current RCPs can offer when developing rich GUI-applications easier and also some concrete code examples of how it is done. There are no other prerequisites than some basic understanding of Java and J.F.C./Swing ' and an interest in GUI application development.

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