Spring Rich Overview

[Tim Troy]

Can our guest Spring authors provide an overview of the Spring Rich Client? I have only seen one-liner descriptions to date. Thanks in advance.

[Jan Machacek]

Hi,

Spring Rich is a full-blown rich client platform that allows you to use Spring just like you would in a web application. More importantly, Spring Rich itself uses Spring internally, making it a very good choice if you need to create a Swing-based application that reuses your Spring beans.

Another amazing feature is the data-binding support, which greatly simplifies declarative implementation of data-bound controls on your forms. Validation is naturally included in the framework, just as i18n.

Spring Rich is quite a complex project, easily beating Spring MVC, but once you get started with it, you will find that it is very easy to use.

Jan