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The RSF Framework#

Reasonable Server Faces (RSF) is an open source web programming framework written in Java, and built on the Spring framework. It provides for Pure XHTML templating and complete request lifecycle handling. (more features listed below).
This Wiki is the home of the RSF/IKAT framework, and will be used to house all its documentation as well as discussions and planning on its future.

Important links: Getting Started | Sample Applications | Current Release | Forums

Latest News #

13 September 2008 - RSF 0.7.4 released! - Rollup of fixes for 0.7.x branch
28 July 2008 - RSF 0.7.3 released - Support for EntityBroker 1.3+, Javascript fixes (see RC1 announcement)
25 July 2008 - RSF Third Birthday (cake 3)
24 June 2008 - RSF 0.7.3RC1 in respositories!! - complete JSONalization, Data Views, full-cycle testing, and demonstration of client-side rendering, numerous fixes
18 September 2007 - RSF 0.7.2 released! Spring Web Flow integration, rendering updates, Maven 2 build (see Roadmap)
27 July 2007 - RSF Second Anniversary! (cake)
11 May 2007 - RSF version 0.7.1 released! - Internationalisation upgrades, fine-grained action navigation, and GET form bindings.

Short summary of RSF features:#

Pure XHTML templating, with a lightning-fast renderer (IKAT) and no custom tags!
AJAX, CSS, and accessiblity are all managed via templates controlled by the designer
The Spring Framework is used for IoC by both developers and the framework throughout
Developers don't have to deal with HttpServletRequest, URLs, or HTML tags in their code
Allows a pure bean programming model (like JSF, no interfaces or base classes appear in your data model)
Highly modular and pluggable architecture
Facilitates designs where zero server state is held between requests
Build "components" using libraries of HTML rather than libraries of code
Lightweight, minimal, memory efficient, and fast