[ANN] Struts-Flow 0.1 Released

[Don Brown]

Struts Flow is a port of Cocoon's <http://cocoon.apache.org> Control 
Flow <http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/flow/index.html> to Struts 
<http://struts.apache.org> to allow complex workflow to be implemented 
using continuations-capable JavaScript. It provides the ability to 
describe the order of Web pages that have to be sent to the client, at 
any given point in time in an application. The code is based on a 
proof-of-concept Dave Johnson put together 
<http://rollerweblogger.org/comments/roller/blog/jsp_control_flow_engine> 
to show how the Control Flow could be extracted from Cocoon.

While the initial target of the extracted Control Flow is Struts, the 
Flow code is reusable from other non-Struts environments. This means 
Control Flow could be used to drive non-Struts JSP applications, 
portlets, or even complex web services.

For more information, see the project's temporary website: 
http://struts.sf.net/struts-flow

To show the code in action, here is the implementation of a number 
guessing game:

function main() {
 var random =  Math.round( Math.random() * 9 ) + 1;
 var hint = "No hint for you!"
 var guesses = 0;
 while (true) {
   // send guess page to user and wait for response
   forwardAndWait("failure", 
      { "random"  : random,  
        "hint"    : hint,
        "guesses" : guesses} );

   // process user's guess
   var guess = parseInt( getRequestParams().guess );
   guesses++;
   if (guess) {
     if (guess > random) {
       hint = "Nope, lower!"
     } 
     else if (guess < random) {
       hint = "Nope, higher!"
     } 
     else {
       // correct guess
       break;
     }
   }
 }

 // send success page to user
 forwardAndWait("success", 
    {"random"  : random, 
     "guess"   : guess, 
     "guesses" : guesses} );
}

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