Rich Client Platform

2 interesting articles about RCP (from application-servers):

• Rich Client : effet de mode ou révolution ? (in french)
• Coming soon : CPS Rich Client based on Eclipse RCP

I admit AJAX aplications are nice and cool (gmail, google maps...) but I prefere a full java application because:

1. I'm hate those javascript/cross browsers problems
2. There is no technology/language mix (smaller learning curve)
3. I like java and compilator errors (versus scripting language even if I'm learning ruby)
4. I've been using CSS for web styling for many years now, it's nice but it can be so damn hard to get what you want sometimes...