I heartily agree with this for a simple uploader app. The work required to get a basic version running and ready for distribution is minimal. However, make su

I heartily agree with this for a simple uploader app. The work required to get a basic version running and ready for distribution is minimal. However, make sure you test it on several platforms to make sure it looks nice and intuitive on each one. I have used one or two Swing apps with extremely strange-looking file pickers that did confusing things like consistently open up to / instead of to the user's home directory. I've also seen Java Web Start apps that used the Motif look and feel on OSX! I think things like that only happen if you go out of your way to screw up, but test to be sure. Avoid silly mistakes like that and Java Web Start will be just fine for such a simple application, and much less trouble to package and distribute.