Rethinking the Java GUI. Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. "When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet," he jokes. His point: Java was miscast as a mobile and portable GUI. Its real mission in life was to become a platform for network services. I thought so too, from the moment I created my first servlet five years ago. [Full story at InfoWorld.com.] ... [Jon's Radio]
Very interesting article about the renewed potential of Java on the client.
Maybe is a play to try here having a richer view of portals: using a rich client to access the portal, having a XML-> Swing layer, for richer interaction.
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