1. If RIFE is really all it appears to be (e.g., a complete answer to the questions Ruby on Rails has posed to the Java community), how come it is not more widely used? It is still a very minor player (whether or not this is justified). I was wondering why this might be. Could it be to do with its Belgian (i.e., non-US) origins?
I just wanted to add to this that RIFE never was and still is not intended to be a RoR-clone for Java. We have been working on the framework for almost 4 years now and only recently prepped RIFE/Crud for public release after having used it a long time internally. We have our own ideals and ideas. Some go intro the same direction as RoR, but many are also the opposite. It just happens that RoR took the community by a storm and that people compare RIFE with it.
Personally I think that the best thing in RoR is Ruby, I don't like the framework itself very much. Since a wealth of JVM scripting languages are supported in RIFE (like Groovy), you can get much of agility that scripting languages give you.
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