Chapter 15Creating Java Client Applications
For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.
—William N. Lipscomb Jr., NY Times, 7 December, 1977
Java client applications are standalone programs that run in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on the Client Tier. The user interface portion is usually written using Sun’s Swing components and other third-party components (for example, for graphs and charts). As described in Chapter 7, this book concentrates on two styles of applications where the JVM runs on different machines, namely Java applications (Java code run in a standalone JVM process) and applets(Java code run in a web browser’s ...
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