On 10/21/07, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <big-snip/> > > > > > > * Dialog Manager > > > * Dialog Manager (Basic Implementation) > > > * Dialog Manager (SCXML Implementation) > > > The Dialog Manager might be a next step for MyFaces Orchestra. Anyway, > > > I > > > hope that one of the original developers is still there to help out > > > with > > > things. > > > > +0 I like the idea of integrating this with Orchestra, although I'm not > > convinced that Spring should be a requirement to use this feature. If that's > > the case, you might as well use Spring Web Flow. > > The thing I like most about Shale Dialogs is that you really can > abstract a significant amount of detail behind a common dialog > interface, and then pick a back end implementation with varying sets > of capabilities (and dependencies). Early on in Orchestra's life, I > had suggested to Mario that it would be cool to have an adapter so you > could Orchestra as your dialog implementation :-). > <snap/>
While I'm on neither of the PMCs, I continue to be interested in Shale dialogs. And as long as I'm around, someone will try to answer user queries etc. -Rahul > Longer term, this territory is going to get addressed by Web Beans > (JSR-299), which is likely to include all the scope stuff (and more > than Dialog has), coupled with annotation based dependency injection. > > But I've always felt that support for scopes other than > request/session/application *really* belongs in the servlet spec so > all Java web technologies can use it ... <snip/>