It might be easier for you, but not for the corporate IT shop you're
trying to sell your stuff to. They probably have some wacked out
compliance test to go through for everything they want to install on
their 7000 Windows 2000 Desktops (XP being too newfangled and unproven
to be used). In contrast, web apps are usually not problematic (except
that you can't use Javascript).

Thomas

>>
>> Your reason is a special instance of a much more general reason. Web
>> applications are much easier to deal with from a deployment
>> perspective than desktop applications.
>
> I don't know, it's not difficult to set up an RMI server, or to deploy
> a Swing client with Web Start (gives the user a single-click launch
> from the browser).  I've done it, and frankly it's easier than messing
> with Tomcat and Web frameworks (no offense to Wicket).
>

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