RIFE was included as a honorary mention in a 2006 Java technology winner list at O'Reilly for the Java Web Framework/API category. With the de-facto standard JSF being the absolute winner in that area, this is awesome news and shows that our efforts are being noticed and appreciated.

It's also interesting that Groovy is included in this list. Not many people may know this, but RIFE has been a huge Groovy supporter for many years. It is a first-class scripting language for our framework. For example, you can write the entire website configuration or domain model in Groovy and have it reload at run-time, or use it as a boolean expression language inside templates. Of course, your server-side components can be also written with Groovy and even seamlessly integrate with other JVM scripting languages or regular Java in the same web application flow.