ABOUT THE SPEAKER Coach Wei is founder and CTO of Nexaweb Technologies (www.nexaweb.com), which develops the leading software platform for building and deploying Enterprise Internet Applications. Coach has his masters degree from MIT, holds several patents, is the author of many technology publications, and is an industry advocate for the proliferation of open standards. SESSION DESCRIPTION Rich client, thick client, thin client - what are they? What are the benefits of rich client, in particular Java Rich Client? This session presents an overview of the various client technologies, in particular various Java-based rich-client solutions, including Swing/AWT, SWT, and XML. Further, it analyzes the trade-off between these different Java-rich client technologies, and presents real-world case studies to justify the ROI of Java-Rich Client solutions.