Rich Client Application on Web

Recently, most users are complaining the poor user experience of web application today. They want the power of window applications work through the web.

The next version of Windows, code named Longhorn (XAML) will support this feature. However, It would only be available in 2006 - 2007.

If you need this feature but can't wait for Longhorn, you may take a look on some others OSS projects :

Thinlet is a GUI toolkit, a single Java class, parses the hierarchy and properties of the GUI, handles user interaction, and calls business logic. Separates the graphic presentation (described in an XML file) and the application methods (written as Java code). Thinlet runs with Java 1.1 (browsers' default JVM) to 1.4, Personal Java, and Personal (Basis) Profile. Swing isn't required.

Another one is XUL# : XUL (pronounced "zool") is a technology developed by the Mozilla development team. XUL is an XML based user interface markup language. It allows you to create GUIs with the same ease as one would create a web page.

[Original posted by Serena-Yeoh]

I have tried Thinlet demo. It is really cool! However, some of the demos is not work properly and cause "hang". I got to close all of my browser instances to continue. :(