I created a RIFE group on the JavaOne EventConnect website.

If you're at JavaOne and want to chat about RIFE, feel free to join the group.

This is a nice way of structuring any informal meetings. We can also use it to share some examples and documents after we have met.

RIFE is present in two sessions at this year's JavaOne.

If you have ever wondered what our framework is about and how it relates to the other technologies out there, now is the time!

You can either attend the dedicated RIFE BOF and participate in an informal and friendly discussion about what makes RIFE special, or you can attend the RAD Web Framework panel discussion to also see what other newer frameworks are up to.

Should you be at JavaOne, but not be able to attend either session, feel free to contact me through the Sun Event Connect tool, we can sit down somewhere and have a little chat about RIFE.

If you can't make it to JavaOne, check out our conference agenda for other RIFE sessions, straight from the source.

These are the details of the BOF, and what you can expect:

Cutting-edge productivity with RIFE

About RIFE

RIFE is a full-stack, open-source Java web application framework, offering fast results with the promise of maintainability and code clarity. While many are attracted to RIFE for the productivity gains it offers, the framework actively tries to solve difficult problems with creative solutions that combine power and flexibility with comfortability. RIFE has pioneered many novel ideas in Java web application development, including: pure Java web continuations, run-time POJO-driven CRUD generation, scalable component oriented architecture, state handling without sessions, focus on REST as an application API, bi-directional logicless template engine, and the integration of a content management framework.

About this session

This BOF will be driven by the audience that's present. Various presentations can be given about a collection of RIFE concepts. If people are interested in an informal Q&A session, questions will gladly be answered and backed by relevant examples or real-world application demos.

This session can demonstrate how RIFE lets you cut corners when there's no need for a complex setup. You can see how trivial CRUD functionalities are instantly available and how they can completely be customized without the need of restarting your servlet container. The rich POJO-driven meta-data system can also be demonstrated as well as how it propagates and drives most of the framework's modules. If there's an interest, we can also develop a component from scratch and introduce the web engine, the template engine, the persistence layer and the content management framework with clear and concise examples.

Pre-requisits

Attendees should have experience with dynamic web application development and have at least an intermediate level of Java programming knowledge.