I am forwarding this question to Gerald - who is not on this mailing-list, but created a wizard for an auctioning system we are currently working on.
regards, Martin On 10/26/05, Colin Chalmers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to know how others are building wizard types of applications > using JSF/Backing Beans. > > I realise that Shale & WebFlow are going to help on this but was > wondering how others are doing it with *standard * JSF tools. > > I have a booking process that needs to gather information in five steps > before persisting the data. I have (at least) two backing beans; one > called Booking which gathers the data from the 5 different steps and > has session scope, the other called BookingController which actually > controls the flow through the 5 diff. steps by capturing the diff. > submit events, this bean has request scope. I thought this better than > defining a diff. bean per page, which is what some people seem to be > implementing, but am not completely happy with the result. In order to > actually get the info into the database etc I still have to copy > properties from my backing bean into a domain Object for persistance via > Hibernate; ie seperate beans for name, address & flight info. It might > be better to try and fill the domain objects eralier through filling in > the form and passing in via the backing bean; ie cut out the middle man > :-) but would still have a problem holding on to data in session. > > Could I have done this better/different/easier without the use of > Shale/WebFlow & utilising request scope better? > > I look forward to your comments. > > /Colin > -- http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Trainings in English and German
