I'm happy to see folks trying to improve on the existing Java web frameworks (I'm especially anxious to see whether Wicket will relieve us from the horrors of Tapestry) but...

...is it just me or does it seem like someone's astroturfing the RIFE thread at TheServerSide? I mean, the first three posts are like they were written by someone with a bachelor's in marketing, and looking at the post history of the said three users, we can see that they've only posted in threads where Geert (the author of RIFE) has posted (or in the one started by Dion about different Java web frameworks). Plus, a couple of those names are the same guys that show up on the testimonials page at rifers.org.

Please tell me I'm imagining things.