title: Which Java based framework --Lift or Rife?
body: <p>I need to build a CRUD application to maintain a simple set of tables. Normally I would do this in php but I cannot deploy this in the client environment. </p>
  
  <p>I want to do this reasonably quickly and vanilla J2EE, EJBs, spring, Hibernate etc. is just plain overkill.</p>
  
  <p>I am looking at either Rife or Lift frameworks. They both seem to have RAD capabilities, good Webpage as UI support, reasonable ORM support, and, can be deployed as a package with Jetty or Tomcat.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone out there have experience of these? I would be interested in any opinion no matter how subjective. Also can anyone suggest anything better!  </p>
  
  <p>Thanks for the Advice.
  I was intially attracted to Lift and Rife because I can deploy the developed apps as a compiled WAR file -- with no source code inside. I was also impressed by the fact that large parts of twitter have been rewritten in lift.</p>
  
  <p>I Rife would seem to be ideal for my purposes but it has not been updted since 2007 which is a bit worrying.</p>
  
  <p>So it looks like Grails and Groovy here I come!</p>