+1 I fully agree. Conversation scope is a kludge for a broken model, and in the end nothing more than a specialized form of global variables.
Just put your state into the appropriate page or component instances and/or models, and you get *any* scope you need, for free. Carl-Eric On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:55:26 -0700 (PDT) svenmeier <s...@meiers.net> wrote: > > What is this 'conversation' all about? > > It doesn't seem to be a known concept in any GUI guideline I know > (e.g. Apple's Human Interface Guidelines). Neither does wikipedia > list it under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI_widget. > > This is what wikipedia is saying about Seam's conversation: 'The > default Seam context is conversation which can span multiple pages > and usually spans the whole business flow, from start to finish.' > This seems to describe a > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_(software) . > > IMHO 'conversation' is a buzzword invented for those who still think > a web UI consists of a sequence of HTML pages only. > Back in 2000 the same guys invented 'mvc-2' and told us that a UI can > be built on actions only. > > Just my rant (worth 2 cents or less). > > Back to Wicket and wizards: > For a wizard I'd suggest to use a single Wicket page, replacing > components as you step through it. > Note that Wicket extensions provide a wizard component, but you can > easily roll your own implementation. > > Sven > > > Hican this functionality added to the standard wicket? > > actually much of seam popularity came from supporting conversation > > scope..., > > so i think that adding explicit wicket support will have momentum > > i think that having just a store for conversation objects will be a > > good begin > > then we may add apis like beginConversation, endConversation > > ,joinConversation,mergeConversation > > ,suspendConversation,resumeConversation > > and other concepts like workspace > > what do u think? > > Joe > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
