Build Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with Ultra Light Client (ULC)

Ultra Light Client makes it possible to develop rich client applications based on server-side architectures, withour any application code executed on the clienty installation.

ULC: main features

ULC is a library that adds rich client functionality to thin client J2EE applications, following the presentation server approach. Specifically, ULC provides thin client support for Swing, the standard component library for rich Java clients.
ULC supports a homogeneous, server-side programming model, i.e. the developer can use the ULC-enabled Swing components as if they were running on the server. Deployment is possible in any J2EE-compliant container as a servlet or a stateful session bean. On the client tier, ULC employs an application independent presentation engine based on J2SE . Both the distribution of the presentation layer and network optimizations at runtime are transparent to the software developer.

ULC affects only the presentation layer within a J2EE architecture and therefore complements HTML perfectly in a multi-channel scenario.

The ULC component library relieves the developer of technical issues such as partitioning, optimizing client-server communication and caching.

ULC product overview.

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