Rich Internet Applications (RIA)

By special request I have annotated the chart I mentioned in my previous post to show where Canoo’s Java RIA library, UltraLightClient (ULC) is positioned within the Rich Internet Application (RIA) space:

Thin Swing

UltraLightClient is a Java library which offers the full Swing widget set for your web applications, i.e. a server-side API for Swing. It is a thin client where no application code is deployed on the client. A small, generic Presentation Engine displays the user interface and solves typical versioning and distribution issues experienced with conventional Swing fat clients.

A drawback for some consumer applications is the Java plugin requirement on the client and the size of the JRE download. This is one of the reasons why Canoo is closely watching JavaFX (see Mike’s posts on JavaFX) and other consumer JRE discussions. In a business scenario, UltraLightClient is a cost-effective alternative to offer responsive, desktop-like user interfaces for web applications that need to run on various platforms.

See the UltraLightClient product website for further details:
Top reasons to use UltraLightClient
Advantages vs. Swing and Java Web Start
Case Studies

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