I want to develop a Swing client application that will use a Java EE 6 backend. How does the Swing client communicate with the server? Do I have to make a web service that the communication go through or are there other ways?
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I want to develop a Swing client application that will use a Java EE 6 backend. How does the Swing client communicate with the server? Do I have to make a web service that the communication go through or are there other ways?
There are other ways also in addition to web services.
One very common approach is RMI or Remote Method Invocation. It is a native extension of the Java platform that allows server-side objects to be directly accessible inside client-side code.
If you have no experience with RMI then take a look at the official Java Remote Method Invocation Tutorial