Why not a Web-based User Interface?
Web-based UIs present a number of development and ongoing cost issues. The development effort for Web interfaces can be very expensive, and require as many as four different skill sets (for example, HTML, VBScript, ASP and C++). And, the resulting application isn’t always particularly compelling contorted Web pages that are not especially intuitive to use, are not interactive in real-time and cannot replicate the functionality of a fat client interface written with a GUI toolkit. Further, the verbose HTML language and page refresh/reload for simple UI updates can drive up enormous bandwidth requirements and cost. Droplets, by contrast, allow you to write your entire application in a single language (either Java or C++) with an AWT and Swing-based GUI Toolkit, and present GUIs with all the real-time interactivity and ease-of-use of local software GUIs. And, Droplets reduce bandwidth use by 90% versus comparable Web-based applications by sending UI changes and commands through a highly o
