This is so true - for the past 5 years I've been working on web apps, but this year most of my time was spent working on a java server / client with the client

This is so true - for the past 5 years I've been working on web apps, but this year most of my time was spent working on a java server / client with the client being a web start applet. It has been so pleasurable to not have to worry about HTML / JS - if I want a dialog box, I can have one very simply with no messing about.