TechBookmReport on ‘Filthy Rich Clients’

You’ve just got to love this title. It conjures up images of fat cats sipping cool drinks by the pool and chomping on huge Havana cigars. But no, dear reader, drop those enticing images from your mind. The Filthy Rich Clients of the title are in fact ultra fat client applications coded in Java. Where some people are looking at thin client web applications, this is firmly focused on those desktop Java applications coded in Swing and featuring highly graphical interfaces.