Hi I'm developing a JSF webapp which works like a 'wizard' where the user steps though several pages(or steps). The main navigation control are links like 'next', 'previous', and 'cancel'. I've done a couple of these 'wizard'-style apps, each very different in structure.
I'm looking for suggestions for what you've found to work well in this type of application. My previous 2 weak attempts of a wizard-style app is as follows. My first app has one managed bean for the entire wizard with all validation and wizard logic in that one bean(and supporting POJOs). Using one backing bean made it easier for reuse of page layout and navigation controls, and made it easy to skip steps dynamically at runtime. But it grew very large and not very pretty. My second app has one backing bean per 'step'. But I couldn't find an obvious way of reuse page layout and navigation controls across all the managed beans. So each page is bound to its own backing bean with 'next', 'previous' and 'cancel' action methods. And sometimes a backing bean had to know which page was the previous and the next step. Hope someone can help regards, Henrik
