Hi Bryan,
Thanks for your comments.
Your concerns are the reason I have been thinking about the multi-page form
support being a specific case of workflow i.e. for web we may only require
one page, but for WAP we may require several etc. As I said I should have
more in a couple of days, but thanks, I'll take your comments into account.
Regards,
Nic
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Field-Elliot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:56 PM
Subject: Thoughts on Workflow and multiple devices...
> Some end-user thoughts on the design of the Workflow system --
>
> For the foreseeable future, I'll be building sites which need to be
> accessed from multiple devices, with different presentation
> requirements. This includes the standard desktop browser, but also
> includes WAP, and likely also includes Palm OS web clipping.
>
> To support the same business logic with different presentations, may I
> stress that the Workflow piece be designed to be as "MVC-ish" as the
> rest of Struts.
>
> For example -- perhaps you define logical "activities", composed of
> logical "steps" and logical "pre-" and "post-conditions". But as far as
> mapping these things to actual screens (JSP pages) -- keep in mind that,
> depending upon the device, the developer might want to put all steps
> onto one screen, or split them across multiple screens (or even skip
> certain steps for certain devices). By keeping a loose coupling between
> JSP pages and the logical definition of the workflow (and by allowing
> the flexibility of combining or splitting steps among pages), I'll have
> better support for this kind of UI problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bryan
>
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