Swing Rich Client Framework

Question

Are there any good swing rich client development and server integration framework?

Answer 1

jwenting wrote:
You're thinking too much about one thing, the client and user interface.
Don't. Think about the entire system.
What you're looking for is classic subscriber/publisher systems, where a client subscribes to updates from a publisher and the publisher pushes updates to published clients.
The client has to do nothing after subscribing to actually receive updates, but will of course have to actually handle the incoming data, for example by reading out a queue of incoming messages at regular intervals.Yes subscribe/publish is one type of communication which is the asynchronous messages I referred to, another is session-like communication when users chat (a user may have multiple chat session going and may also go out of band for some types of communication, that is not relayed via server) and then theres request-response communication when the client logs into the server (the client goes through 6-13 steps for authentication and data synchronization which is what I expect to use the statemachine for). You could say the client works autonomously while logging in, and is driven by user and server input the rest of the time. I should mention the protocol is well established and massive, Im not looking to design that.
So basically my design has an network IO thread that queues incoming messages to a protocol parser that turn xml messages into java objects. Then I have a BIG GRAY box that uses the java object to decide how to interact with the datamodel and other parts of the system.
The BIG GRAY box is the hole in my design (well I put some homemade design there but I dont like reinventing the wheel if there some principles or client design catalog somewhere that I just havent found using google). The example of updating the datamodel optimistically is just one example of the type of issues I have to deal with when the model is acted upon by both a user and a server.