Hi Geert,

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:11:22PM +0100, Geert Bevin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Matt Raible will conduct a BOF at TSSJS that lays out the sweet spots  
> of several web frameworks. He sent me a mail with quite some  
> questions and here are three of them that I would like to get your  
> input on:
> 
> 1. What is your framework's "sweet spot" and for what type of  
> projects should it strongly be considered?

For me, there are two sweet spots and that's because I've used RIFE both
for web and for non-web related work.

a) RIFE is self-contained *and* a full stack, for me this means that all
the basics (and then some!) are there and nothing else is absolutely
required.

There are lots of other things I can add on top, but the strength here
is that those extras are *optional*. This means a lot on environments
where space is
constrained.

b) The drop-in RIFE/jumpstart is a gem. It's so damn easy to start
playing within it that it's become my generic starting platform for new
projects.

> 2. What type of scenarios does it not fit into? Would you recommend  
> another framework in this scenario? If so, which one?

It uses a some features that aren't yet available in FOSS java stacks...
this will quickly improve in 2006 and my hope is to be able to create
an optimised distributable such that a JVM, class library (stripped of
unused packages like Swing), container, RIFE and user application could
be linked into a single executable with something like JET or GCJ.

Ok, that's ambitious, but really, being able to drop a pre-configured
(or dynamically configurable AS with a bundled JVM and RIFE) would
seriously be nice for hot deployment.

Places RIFE doesn't fit... J2ME and JavaCard! For now at least :)

Thanks,

Steph

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