RSF Mailing List

Reasonable Server Faces (RSF) now has a mailing list for users! Please sign up for this list if you are using RSF or thinking about using it. More info on joining the list is available on the RSF Wiki but ideally we will use this list to answer questions, send out announcements, and all the normal stuff email lists are good for.

This is not meant to replace the RSF forums but to just supplement them.

Along with this, I am happy to announce the second anniversary of RSF is today (27 July 2007)! Please celebrate in whatever way is appropriate.

RSF Wiki refactor and AJAX samples

I have spent many hours over the past couple weeks working on the RSF Wiki. For those who are not familiar with Reasonable Server Faces (RSF), it is an open source Java web framework which is based on the Spring framework and supports pure XHTML templating. The Wiki is the canonical source of documentation for RSF and needed a lot of updates and additions to be more developer friendly. After comparing the websites and Wikis for a lot of open source projects I settled on a set of left hand navigation topic areas and links and then started editing. At this point, the majority of the layout changes are complete and it should be a lot easier for developers to get started with RSF.

Along with the refactoring, I also added pages to describe how to use AJAX in RSF. RSF includes the UVB (or Universal View Bus) which makes calling a method in your application code from AJAX and getting back the results easy. Developers will now find detailed notes about how UVB works and the use of the RSF Javascript library. There is also a new RSF sample app which demonstrate a simple autocomplete using RSF and UVB (this is also available as a sample Sakai tool). I encourage anyone using RSF (and even those who aren't) to check out the Wiki and post feedback.