I'm intending to design (and provide a reference implementation for) a new Swing Rich Client Framework. My job and personal experience covers many project-specific Swing client frameworks as well as the Eclipse RCP, and every one of them had some original and clever concepts, but also drawbacks and rigid realizations.

My plan is to incorporate the best of those concepts and features into a new framework whose core is very open and extendable.

For my must-have-features list, I'm counting on your input and hope you can share some concept pearls & diamonds you've encountered in other frameworks, or features you always wanted to have or have in a better way.

The framework is intended

• for very simple to very complex and sophisticated projects
• for clients that need full i18n
• for richt clients that execute some or all of the non-presentation logic on the server
• to be very lightweight
• to be easy to learn and use

Thanks in advance for sharing your insights :)