We have several of these in our app and have a consistent approach using just Tomahawk. Each page of the wizard has a different backing bean (request scope) which inherits from a wizard class which manages forward/backward navigation etc. and access to a wizard-specific bean to store state. The state bean is managed using Tomahawk's saveState tag.
The model works well and is very efficient. We use it for creating new objects as well as editing existing object -- you just have to be careful about how to initialize the state bean on the first page and managing page access such that the user could not type a URL to page n unless page n-1 has been completed. -----Original Message----- From: Gerald Müllan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 8:16 AM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: Re: wizard-style JSF application: looking for words of wisdom Yes, you can also use sandbox` conversation component to achieve a wizard. In the current application i am developing on, we use t:savestate in order to get a page-wide scope for our beans. The beans are special page-wizard beans which get a base wizard functionality from a wizard base class. The typical back-forward-end functionality works very well with this solution. cheers, Gerald On 9/15/06, William Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > then I think a nice solution is Andrew Robinson's method (JBoss Seam & > Facelets), but instead of JBoss Seam, use tomahawk savestate. I > think there is also a conversation jsf tag/component from tomahawk as well. > > William Huang > Product Development Team > > "Henrik Bentel" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > .com> To > "MyFaces Discussion" > 09/15/2006 12:08 <[email protected]> > PM cc > > Subject > Please respond to Re: wizard-style JSF application: > "MyFaces looking for words of wisdom > Discussion" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ache.org> > > > > > > > > They both look like good alternatives except I'm stuck on java 1.4.2 > and EE 1.3 (weblogic 8.1). > It seems they both require higher JDK/EE versions. > > -Henrik > > > On 9/15/06, Adam Brod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Check out JBoss Seam or the Apache Shale project. They are both JSF > > frameworks with support for widard-like flows. > > > > Adam Brod > > Product Development Team > > > > > > "Henrik Bentel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/15/2006 11:22:56 AM: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > Disclaimer: This electronic mail and any attachments are > > confidential > and > > may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please > > notify > the > > sender immediately by replying to this email, and destroy all copies > > of > this > > email and any attachments. Thank you. > > > > > > > > Disclaimer: This electronic mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this email, and destroy all copies of this email and any attachments. Thank you. > > -- http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces
