Introduction
Over the past several years, rich client desktop platforms have gradually increased in popularity. Leading this trend have been the NetBeans Platform and the Eclipse RCP. The popularization of these desktop platforms has been primarily driven by their related IDEs, which are based on these platforms, providing tools for applications developed on top of their infrastructures. While the Eclipse RCP bases itself, via SWT and JFace, on homegrown idioms and concepts, the NetBeans Platform relies completely on the standard Java APIs, via AWT and Swing, fully integrating the official concepts of the Java Standard Edition.
In the desktop world, rich client platforms are used first and foremost because of the architecture and flexibility they ...
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