I don't like xml configurations of web flow in Spring too. Also another beauty to make a WEBFLOW a normal T5 page is : multiple WEBFLOWs can be easily composed together to create a new WEBFLOW, just as described in the Composite pattern of GOF.
Cheers, Jeffrey Ai Joshua Jackson-3 wrote: > > I like the idea of web-flow like yours. It's not as complicated as > Spring Webflow which involves a helluava xml. I hope tapestry5 would > adopt your idea. > > Cheers. > > On 12/21/07, jeffrey ai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> As you may know or not, T5 doesn't have a web flow framework like the >> Spring >> one yet. Howard mentioned he may add it in the next release. However, our >> project cannot wait for that, therefore I have created a simple one on >> T5. >> Here is the general idea, your comments are **GREATLY APPRECIATED**. >> >> * A WEBFLOW, which is a normal T5 page, injects and contains PAGEs that >> will used in this web flow. >> >> * A PAGE can be used in multiple web flows. A PAGE doesn't have any >> knowledge of where to go for next page, previous page or cancel link. All >> these knowledge are dynamically populated from a WEBFLOW. >> >> * A WEBFLOW has some data objects, which are annotated as >> @ApplicationState. >> PAGEs can pick up whatever data they are interested, display them or >> populate them. >> >> * A typical request flow is like below: >> => An action request is post back to a PAGE >> => A PAGE will do some validation and populate the data >> => In onSuccess() method in PAGE, it returns the next page link, which is >> populated by WEBFLOW and pointing to an action in WEBFLOW >> => A redirection action request is sent to WEBFLOW >> => Some onPage() method in WEBFLOW is triggered. It could review the data >> , >> decide the next page and return it. >> => A page render request is sent to the next page > > -- > I'm a coder not a drag-n-dropper > > Blog: http://joshuajava.wordpress.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/T5%3A-A-web-flow-idea-on-T5-tp14442158p14459192.html Sent from the Tapestry - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
