I recently started to translate a book about "Ruby on Rails"... seems a great job, if I can have it done by the predicted deadline.
I was reading an article titled "Can the Java Plug-in Compete?" that first lines of it really fascinated me...
It is about a RIA framework - actually the client side part - which is using Java Plug-in, and Java programming language. Looks very interesting, even imagination of having those nice features of the language which we use in the server side, at the client side too. You can download and read more about the framework here! But remember that you need a Java-enabled browser.