Rise of the Fit Client

The world of desktop and web client software is about to change and for the better. Fit Clients, application platforms that combine the capabilities of Web 1.0, RIA, desktop widgets, and client/server technologies, are gaining mind share quickly and for good reason. Fit Client platforms such as Adobe AIR, Curl Nitro, Google Gears, and Mozilla Prism promise web developers the power of client/server applications, the ease of management and access of Web 1.0 applications, the cross-platform capabilities of RIA, and the holistic environment of desktop widget platforms.

Fit Clients ensure that code written to one desktop operating system (i.e. Windows, Mac, Linux) are portable across the other desktop operating systems. Without modification. Fit Client platforms promise stronger security, easier access, better performance, and a much richer experience than any desktop client technology that proceeded them. They are the future of the desktop. In this presentation, Richard Monson-Haefel, explains the advantages of Fit Client platforms and how the Fit Client platforms are having a significant and lasting impact on application development and software distribution.

About Richard Monson-Haefel

Richard Monson-Haefel is the author of 97 Things Every Software Architect Should know (O'Reilly), Enterprise JavaBeans (O'Reilly), Java Message Service (O'Reilly), J2EE Web Services (Addison-Wesley), and one of the world's leading experts and book authors on enterprise computing. He was the lead architect of OpenEJB, an open source EJB container used in Apache Geronimo, a member of the JCP Executive Committee, member of JCP EJB expert groups, and an industry analyst for Burton Group researching enterprise computing, open source, and Rich Internet Application (RIA) development. Today, Richard is an independent software developer. You can learn more about Richard at his web site http://www.monson-haefel.com

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