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The New "Fat" Web Client Architecture: Benefits & Tradeoffs

With the advent of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and technologies like Zimbra, “fat clients” look to be making a comeback–this time on the web.

Come to this session to see what this means to you. Colin will explore:

  • the major benefits of the approach taken by these toolkits
  • tradeoffs and hidden costs
  • the impact on the overall web application architecture in key areas such as state management

Are web fat clients the next big thing? Find out here.


Colin Sampaleanu

About Colin Sampaleanu

Colin is Director of R&D at SpringSource (now a division of VMware), which he co-founded in 2004. He is one of the original core committers on the Spring Framework, a published author, and public speaker. Since starting SpringSource he has served in a number of roles throughout various parts of the organization, including Engineering, Service Delivery, Support, and Sales. Colin is at his best when combining both technical as well as business and customer facing aspects.

Colin has had a long and varied career spanning 23 years in both the enterprise and shrinkwrap software space, including previous experience developing for and building out a retail software company.

Immediately prior to SpringSource, Colin spent 5 years as architect/chief architect at a leading software incubator and VC firm. Colin's role was split between one part hands on architecture, design, and coding, another part mentoring and teaching best practices at the code and process level, and a final part performing technical due diligence and consulting for the VC arm.

Throughout his career, Colin's experience, wide ranging interests and general knowledge in the technology space have led him to be a resource that others have been able to draw on for advice. In general, Colin's background has left him with a deep knowledge of all it takes to successfully release good software, at the code, process, and business level.

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