Preface
Welcome to the world of rich client development on the NetBeans Platform.
Though the Internet boom pushed much programming effort to the server side, the demand for quality desktop software remains and is arguably increasing. Some of the reasons include
- Web pages, which are generally the interfaces for server-driven applications, often are insufficient for the needs of the end user.
- Not every application requires a constant Internet connection, and some applications need to function offline.
In this book, we will focus on using the NetBeans Platform as a framework for creating rich client applications that can be written once and then run on any operating system. The NetBeans Platform is the foundation of the NetBeans IDE, which helps ...
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