RIFE 1.4 (Mac)

RIFE is a full-stack web application framework with tools and APIs toimplement most common web features. Each of its toolkits is usable byitself and together they offer powerful integrated features that boostyour productivity. RIFE ensures that every declaration and definition ishandled in one place in the code. This simplifies the developer's task byreducing code replication, enforcing consistency, and easingmaintenance.RIFE's differentiators are:you get 90% of the features with 10% of the usual effort, thanks to its full stacklogic-less HTML templates that can be previewed in any browser andedited with standard toolsuniform component model, designed from the ground up forreusability: applications, sub-sites, pages, porlets, widgets, ... canbe easily packaged and placed in any other contextintegrated native Java web continuations and flow continuationsmetaprogramming, driven by your domain model, but without polluting itflexible declaration and configuration with support for plain Java as well as XMLcore support for web data flow as well as page logic flowintegrates with existing solutions such as Spring and standard JDBC datasourcesmulti-dimensional conversational state management with scopinglanguage-independent template engine with support for XHTML, HTML, XML, Text, SQL, Javapersistence layer with content management integration and versioningdesigned for the creation of consistent maintainable applications as well as on quick deliveryembraces standard protocols and specifications, providing largerbuilding blocks by wrapping lower layers with high-levelfunctionalitiesout-of-container testing with full introspection capabilities of theexecuted flow and componentslightweight execution model that has been proven in productionbuilt for Java 5 with intelligent downgraded support for Java 4designed for developer comfort: minimal application restarts thanksto automatic detection of file modificationsIt features include:Web application engineIntegrated web continuationsIoC supportOut of container testingContent management frameworkBidirectional multi-format template engineTemplate content transformationCentralized meta-data facilityAuthentication frameworkJDBC abstraction layerDatabase query buildersPersistence layerConfiguration frameworkCentral application life-cycle managementCron-like schedulerAsynchronous mail queueContent syndication frameworkResource abstractionWeb services