I spend the last days by admiring some excellent developers work. For instance Luxor XUL, basicly a java implementation of the famous Mozilla XUL Project. With Luxor you can create industry-strength GUIs with a trivial XML Language. An example implementation can be found at http://www.vamphq.com/, where you also can find great tools for developing JNLP aware desktop apps.

now i try to figure out if i have to prefer Luxor over Netbeans in a possible future rich client project.