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Building Rich-Client-Like Web Apps With Echo

Posted by timothy on from the stack-em-like-bricks dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "IBM developerWorks is running a feature on the 'Echo' project, which is used for creating web apps that 'look and act like rich clients.' Echo uses HTML and JavaScript to render a user-interface in the browser instead of client-side plugins like Java WebStart. The API is similar to that of Swing. The article examines an example email client written with the technology. The framework itself is built on Java servlets, and is distributed under the LGPL. More examples can be found here."

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  1. advantage? by ddd2k · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't see the problem of using a servlet-applet combination for interactions with a server through a user-friendly graphical interface inside a browser. It really isn't asking much for a graphical designer to learn how to use Swing and java graphics APIs.

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  2. swing, eh? by BortQ · · Score: 4, Funny
    The API is similar to that of Swing

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!

    That is all.

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  3. I've already made such a system by mithras+the+prophet · · Score: 3, Funny

    echo <<<html>
    <head>
    <title>My rich-client-like web app</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    [ note to self: put forms and javascript and stuff here ]
    </body>
    </html>

    EOQ

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