Welcome to the RIFE2 wiki!

RIFE2 is a full-stack, no-declaration, framework to quickly and effortlessly create web applications with modern Java.

RIFE2 is built on the foundations of the original RIFE framework that was popular from 2002-2010. Since then, the world and Java have changed and many of the original RIFE APIs could finally be replaced with pure Java, no-XML, no-YAML, leaving only type-safe expressive code.

RIFE2 preserves most of the original features and adds new ones, for a fraction of the footprint and with even greater developer productivity than before. RIFE2 is created by Geert Bevin, one of the first Java Champions and speaker at many Java conferences.

You can find a collection of concise examples in the RIFE2 GitHub repository.
The RIFE2 Javadocs complement this documentation with many more details.

• Web Engine
  • Getting Started
    • RIFE2's bld build tool
      • Get started
      • Deployment
      • Static Resources
    • Gradle build tool
      • Get started
      • Deployment
      • Static Resources
    • Maven build tool
      • Get started
  • Routing
  • Elements
  • Field Annotations
  • Site
  • Path Info Mapping
  • Continuations
  • Out-of-container Testing
  • Hierarchical Properties
  • Dependency Injection
• Template Engine
  • Bidirectional Templates
  • Filtered Template Tags
  • Value Renderers
  • Template Types
  • Standalone Templates
• Database Engine
  • Datasources
  • Query Builders
  • Transactions
  • Generic Query Manager
• Metadata
  • Constraints
  • Metadata Merging
  • Validation
  • Error Reporting
  • Form Generation
• Content Management
  • Content Management Framework (CMF)
  • Content Query Manager
  • Serving Content
  • CMF Example
• Authentication
  • Credentials
  • Authentication Sessions
  • Protected Routes
• Workflow Engine
  • Workflow Continuations
  • Work Coordination
• Config
• Scheduler
• Resource Abstraction
• bld tool documentation
• Miscellaneous
  • Requirements
  • Example RIFE2 Projects
  • Tomcat Configuration
  • Hosting
  • IntelliJ IDEA Plugin
  • Why RIFE2?
  • What does RIFE stand for?
  • RIFE2 Javadocs

Thanks for reading!