Wish Pivot had been around a couple of years ago:
Pivot is a platform for building rich internet applications in Java. It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern RIA toolkit with the robustness of the industry-standard Java platform….Pivot applications are written using a combination of Java and XML and can be run either as an applet or as a standalone (optionally offline) desktop application.
Try the “Kitchen Sink” demo yourself. It’s really impressive with Java 6u10 or above…could applets really be making a comeback? Hmm!
