Is it possible to create a program that has both a web app component, and a desktop app component, in java?

It's certainly possible. This is one of the roles that EJB was supposed to fill long, long ago. Today, the "enterprise" solution would probably be to do this with three parts: webapp, standalone GUI, and a ReST API to service both of them.

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