Peter Leitner

Remote Swing or server-side Swing - this is the most concise characterization of Canoo's UltraLightClient library (ULC). ULC offers server-side peer classes for Swing. For each Swing widget, there's a peer ULC class with essentially the same API. The value added by ULC is the built-in split between client and server: ULC splits each widget into a client part and a faceless server part, and synchronizes these so-called half widgets at runtime. The result is a client that's rich but thin, an idea that sounds puzzling today, since we associate rich clients with fat clients, and thin clients with HTML-based poor clients. Minimal Footprint An important characteristic of ULC is its minimal footprint. Despite the fact that it's a client/server technology, it imposes neither a framework nor an application server onto its user. All infrastructural tasks are delegated to stan... (more)