The whole point is there is no concept of a Workflow scope in Servlet API and if you want to share objects , you have to put them in session.And then clearing them is not always easy, as you will never be clear when user may leave the workflow scope.And you have to code for it in every action.
What this extension does is to leave all those details to framwrork, and the programmer just has to COnfigure the actions ,saying that they belong to a workflow.And then he has no more worries as to getting a bloated session, as the session gets trimmed of workflow objects as soon as user goes to any screen which is not part of work flow. HTH. regards, Shirish -----Original Message----- From: Robert Nocera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:36 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] - Request against Session This is probably even more off topic, but I've seen this mentioned before. >From what I can tell of their description of this "workflow" scope, it looks like it may be helpful as far as ease of use goes, but it doesn't offer any real technical benefit over the use of hidden form fields or sessions, in fact, the underlying implementation has to be something passing parameters of using the session, there just isn't any alternative in any compliant application servers. As far as the objects being cleared when the user leaves the workflow, how is that any different the using the session correctly? If the user goes on to another page that is not part of your current "workflow" you can clear those objects or you wait until the user's session times out -- those are really the only two options. -Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT] - Request against Session Hi Guys, I think the issue over here is, in such cases we need a new scope(workflow scope).The existing scopes(request/session) do not suffice in such cases. ... The session scope can be used but it may not be cleared.So there has to be a solution at architecture level.And the struts workflow extension http://www.livinglogic.de/Struts/introduction.html ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
