Which Rich Client Platform to use

Question

We recently started to develop a Java desktop app and management has requested that we make use of Rich Client Platform. I know of four for Java namely:

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Answer 1

I'm currently developing a Spring RCP application. The documentation is really weak, that's for sure, but the blogs and forum have a good amount of information to get going. Once you do get cruising, things do move fairly fast and you really only need to learn basic Spring if you aren't familiar with the framework. The integrations with Spring libraries such as VLDocking is excellent too.

I think Spring Rich is great if your use case is to develop a standalone Java desktop application. What I mean by that is if you don't need to distribute modules and do online updates then it should fulfill most needs.