I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents worth on this workflow issue in relation
to Maverick. I have developed a fairly large application under Maverick
and have found the maverick.xml file to have grow somewhat unwieldy. I
think that with some sort of abstractions added to the maverick.xml
features, it could be pared down quite a bit -- some of this might fall
under what you're calling workflow. Here's what I mean:
1. All my commands include the following two views:
<view name="noSession" ref="noSession"/>
<view name="systemError" ref="systemError"/>
These two lines are repeated many times through my mav.xml file. It would
be nice if when a command were run, that if the view wasn't specified, it
would look in some default place. Since putting "code" in one and only one
place is a desirable, then this would help with the understandability and
maintenance of the codebase.
2. If I happen to be missing a view, I don't know about it until the
program is run and happens across this issue. It would be nice if the
controller had an ability to accept a list of views that it needs. We can
create this list for each of our controllers -- that's no big deal. Then
Maverick could on startup, check that no views are missing from the mav.xml
file. Maybe a method like String [] getRequiredViews().
3. Some sort of namespace convention might also be nice. For example, I
have two main areas in my mav.xml file, one area for the main site and
another for admin. The admin stuff is intermingled with the main site
stuff and it is only through naming conventions that I keep them separate,
but it has been the source of a few bugs. I have thought of separating
these two areas into two different war files, which would solve the
problem, but perhaps there is a structure within mav.xml that can encourage
separation also.
4. Regarding workflow in particular, I also have come across cases where I
would have liked to "remember" state as I go through a sequence so I can
return to it. For example, it a "visitor" or "guest" tries to access a
page that requires logging in, I would like to take them to the login
workflow, and at the end of that workflow return them to the page they
wanted to access in the first place. This would be such a cool and
powerful feature. I haven't figured out a way to do this within the
current system.
Please take these comments within the context they are given: I am a very
happy and satisfied Maverick user, and would make the same decision to go
with mav today even knowing these limitations!
Dan
At 07:19 PM 7/18/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello Scott..
>
> I'm going to try to throw a skeleton together so that it can be added to
>the CVS, so people can help out as they wish. Hopefully early next week (?)
>there'll be enough for people to follow what's going on and see where they
>can help.
>
>-Roy
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Bechtel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 4:20 PM
>Subject: [Mav-user] Work Flow
>
>
> > Hey guys,
> > I'm very interested in the work flow system since I am ready to create a
>web
> > site that requires one. If you need any assistance in coding or testing
>be
> > in touch.
> >
> > Scott Bechtel
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> > www.newconquest.com
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> >
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