RIFE roadmap?

[ravi2boxster]

RIFE Devs,

I have been evaluating RIFE for the past couple of months and I am
very happy with the features and the community. I think this project
deserves much more publicity than it gets!

Now that I am doing a write-up to management to make this our de-facto
web app framework, I'd like to understand if there is a roadmap for
future releases with features? I see that the last release was July
2007 and haven't seen any new posts to the announcements list of late.

Can somebody give me an idea of where RIFE is going and what new
features are planned.

Thank you Geert and team for a wonderful tool!

Ravi

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[Geert Bevin]

Hi Ravi,

thanks a lot for your nice words. RIFE has been dormant for 6 months  
since some of the key users and me have had a couple of very busy  
months in real life (family stuff and such).

I've picked development back up a couple of weeks ago.

These are the changes that are still pending to come out with the next  
release 1.6.2 (hopefully next week):

* moved to the Apache 2 license
* upgraded the support for all the 3rd party scripting languages,
   libraries and databases to their latest versions
* RIFE-89 : Add support for custom error handling
* RIFE-304 : Allow exit/submission names to be references to Java fields
* RIFE-315 : Support annotation to specify meta data class
* RIFE-284 : Please include a TemplateWrapper class
* RIFE-255 : add option bundlename to the L10N:key tag
* RIFE-316 : Pathinfo inputs aren't preserved in the URL during
   behavioral inheritance
* whole bunch of continuations related bug fixes

(see here http://uwyn.com/issues/browse/RIFE for the issues in detail)

I'm still planning of wrapping up RIFE-238, RIFE-294 and RIFE-290  
before the next release.

After that I'm thinking of integrating RIFE/Crud into RIFE itself and  
adding a non-HTML XML view that thus generates RESTful responses. This  
means that RIFE can be used for instance RESTful service creation  
through beans and a simple site declaration.

Next thing I'm going to look at is rewriting the template parser since  
it's a bit slow now. I'm also going to work further on the  
continuations support so that it can work in multiple methods in a  
class and release RIFE/Workflow as a first stable release.

So you can see ... many things are coming :-)

Thanks for the interest,

Geert


On 01 May 2008, at 01:27, Ravi wrote:

>
> RIFE Devs,
>
> I have been evaluating RIFE for the past couple of months and I am
> very happy with the features and the community. I think this project
> deserves much more publicity than it gets!
>
> Now that I am doing a write-up to management to make this our de-facto
> web app framework, I'd like to understand if there is a roadmap for
> future releases with features? I see that the last release was July
> 2007 and haven't seen any new posts to the announcements list of late.
>
> Can somebody give me an idea of where RIFE is going and what new
> features are planned.
>
> Thank you Geert and team for a wonderful tool!
>
> Ravi

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