Shale dialogs do, however, have a mechanism for storing objects between requests. So in that sense they are similar to t:saveState. I've never really used save-state before but I have some experience with Shale dialogs.
Shale dialogs are excellent. Its the only feature of Shale that I am using in a production system at the moment (also view controllers.) But there is plenty more to Shale then dialogs. Check out the link that was suggested in the previous message. Sean On 2/10/06, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CONNER, BRENDAN (SBCSI) wrote: > > After having done several native MyFaces application implementations, > > I'm just starting to do initial research into Shale. The motivation to > > do this is that, from my understanding, Shale offers a framework > > allowing relatively painless debugging of JSF actions. > > > > I noticed on the site that Shale provides support for multi-screen > > "conversations" via its Dialog Manager. Can someone comment on how > > using this compares to using <t:saveState>? Are there situations in > > which using one is preferred to using the other? > > They do rather different things. t:saveState allows you to 'attach' > arbitrary data to the saved view state, effectively allowing you to > preserve backing bean state or other data across requests. > > Shale Dialogs is more like a simple workflow management framework; it > allows you to describe a series of states and state transitions that > represent a 'dialog' between the user and your application. I think > Shale Dialogs and Spring Webflow are pretty similar in intent, if the > comparison helps. > > > Also, what other benefits (or drawbacks) can I expect from using Shale? > > (I probably should ask this in the Shale user group, but I figured > > people in this user group would have some interesting feedback as well.) > > Shale is a 'value added' framework for JSF; in other words, it adds > various useful features on top of what JSF already provides. For an > overview of what's available, see the Shale Features section of the > project site: > > http://struts.apache.org/struts-shale/index.html#Shale_Features > > L. > >
