I just uploaded RIFE 1.5 Milestone 1. I decided to not go ahead with the final release since there are still some situations where stateful embedded elements don't work as they should (notably when you create an exit link from an embedded element to another embedded element).

You get a speed release during development with this release. Before, RIFE checked for every request if any of the site-related files had changed, to be able to reload the structure on-the-fly. This thus also meant for all the images, styles, ... (since RIFE is a filter). In this release, the reload check is only made once every 10 seconds (this is of course configurable and is only used when auto site reloading is active).

The other major new features of this release are:

• annotations support for element declaration (example)
• step-back continuations (example)
• stateful components (which you use submissions and reflexive datalinks)
• complete injection and outjection support for all element data (inputs, parameters, inbean, outbeans, incookies, outcookies, parameters, globalvars and globalcookies)
• two new examples: stateful counters (source), hangman (source)
• support for create RIFE applications without any XML (not even participants.xml)
• upgraded a lot of supported 3rd party libraries
• fixes to meta data merging

The full changelog is here:
https://rife.dev.java.net/files/documents/204/34790/ChangeLog

Hope you enjoy this beta release and please notify us should you run into any problems.