Last Saturday, when lecturer Adomas told us about his and his team’s problems trying to create user interfaces with Java, I remembered reading this article by Bruce Eckel. The author of Thinking in Java analyzes reasons behind Java’s failure as the main technology for Rich Internet Applications. In the first half of the article, that is. In the second he praises Flash/Flex as the Next Big Thing in GUI development. Given the fact that Bruce is “in the process of working out a consulting contract with Adobe, to help them teach people about Flex” (quote from the article), we can understand the guy :)