RE: SWT & SOA Referrence Materials

Thanks Joe Sam and Thorbjorn for you reply...

We need to build a client that will require about 2000 concurrent users of 
which 400 are heads down users.  There is significant data entry so that is why 
I am leaning towards a thick client.  It sounds like Swing may be a better 
option then huh?  What is the difference between JSP's and JavaServerFaces?  
Also, is there an advantage to using one or the other?

Thanks guys for you input!
Chad

-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 5:47 AM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: SWT & SOA Referrence Materials

cornelius, chad skrev  den 04-09-2006 05:21:

Do any of you have some recommendations on good reading material for
learning SWT and SOA?  Also, would anyone recommend SWING over SWT?  I
do not know much about either except that SWT can take advantage of
platform specific functionality
  

What scenario are you addressing? 

If it is building a client talking to a server, you should be able to go 
quite a way with a browser (i.e. a web client).  If you need heavy 
processing in the client, then write a Java application and launch it 
with Java Web Start.

I would only recommend the SWT-road for experienced programmers as it is 
a very moving target.   Swing is very well documented and is used by 
many people and has support from a lot of IDE's.  Both Netbeans and 
Eclipse have GUI designers for Swing, and I have been on a team writing 
a very large Swing client.

If your needs are more suited for a web client, then ask for details - I 
am currently writing a JavaServerFaces application and may give you a 
hint or two.

Best regards,

Thorbjørn