According to the requirement Travel Agents response must be faster.
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http://java.sun.com/blueprints/guidelines/designing_enterprise_applications_2e/client-tier/client-tier5.html Implementing the user interface for a Java client usually requires more effort to implement than a browser interface, but the benefits are substantial. First, Java client interfaces offer a richer user experience; with programmable GUI components, you can create more natural interfaces for the task at hand. Second, and perhaps more importantly, full programmability makes Java clients much more responsive than browser interfaces.
When a Java client and a browser client request the same data, the Java client consumes less bandwidth. For example, when a browser requests a list of orders and a Java client requests the same list, the response is larger for the browser because it includes presentation logic. The Java client, on the other hand, gets the data and nothing more.
Furthermore, Java clients can be programmed to make fewer connections than a browser to a server. For example, in the Java Pet Store sample application, an administrator may view orders in a table and sort them by date, order identifier, and so on. He or she may also see order data presented in a pie chart or a bar chart,
Because the administrator client uses the JFC/Swing API, it can provide all of these views from the same data set; once it retrieves the data, it does not have to reconnect to the server (unless it wants to refresh its data). In contrast, an administrator client implemented using a browser must connect to the server each time the view changes. Even though the data does not change, the browser has to download a new view because the data and the view are intertwined.
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