> Hi everyone, > > I've been invited to give an interview on the JavaPosse about RIFE. I > need to provide them with a list of topics that I want to talk about. > Is there anything that you find important to discuss, or anything > that you would like to know more about? > > Thanks for the comments. > > Best regards, > > Geert
Let me qualify my statements here by saying that I am very new to rife, in fact I would say that I am still evaluating it but I do like what I see. I do have experience with Struts, Tapestry and Spring MVC. I am also an avid listener to the Javaposse and so I am glad to hear you are going to be interviewed. I don't really have topics for you to cover but I do have some advice/input. Firstly I know that you have mentioned before the possibility of a Rife book. I think if you could announce something solid in this area on the Javaposse it would be an excellent endorsement for the framework. In fact if you could encourage another power user to write a book also would be fantastic, maybe a sourcebeat type book would be most compelling. I remember Matt Raible's excellent Spring book from sourcebeat got me over the hump of learning Spring....the documentation although thorough was like walking in mud. I tend to believe that the most successful Open Source projects are well supported in the writing community....if the project's good they'll write about it. Secondly I think you really need to emphasise Rife's productivity boost to the developer. I think that many in the Java community have web framework fatigue. For any of us to take the time to learn a framework outside of the big four (Struts/Webwork, JSF, Tapestry and Spring MVC) it must be for a really compelling reason. I have also looked at Wicket, Echo and Stripes and found them to be interesting frameworks that probably would increase by productivity slightly (10-20%) but the effort to learn and the lack of market demand for the skills means that they are not compelling enough for me to commit to learning. However I think Rife is different. I see the opportunity not only to increase my productivity on the web layer but also in the service and database layers. In addition Rife/Crud is a Rails, derailer :-) Which brings me to the third point....Rife is pretty unique in the Java community in providing a full stack implementation. I might be missing something but I don't of any other framework that does (I'm not looking for an argument about it). Emphasise this fact, it's very important. Lastly when I first looked at Rife the one thing that made me think twice was the unusual templating syntax. I know that in 1.4 you have addressed this issue and I must say that I like the new syntax options. Mention this change if you can, there may be some people (and I know Matt Raible blogged about it) that never got past the templating syntax. Well this is just my 2cents worth....hope it helps. Congrats on a job well done with Rife....I really hope it starts to snowball. _______________________________________________ Rife-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uwyn.com/mailman/listinfo/rife-users
