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From: "Matthias Wessendorf" <mailings@matthias-wessendorf.de>
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	"'Sean Schofield'" <sean.schofield@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [Blog] JSF in Chains
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 07:20:09 +0100
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Sean and BaTien,

thanks for your comments!

I just saw that David added sniplets
to his blog, that is interessting for me ;)
http://jroller.com/page/dgeary


Sean, after I know more on chain and I need something
more... I will ask you. Thanks for that!

Regards,
Matthias

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Schofield [mailto:sean.schofield@gmail.com]=20
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 10:44 PM
> To: MyFaces Development
> Subject: Re: [Blog] JSF in Chains
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> > Has anyone subscribed to this lists
> > played with JSF(MyFaces) and Chains?
> > Feedback is very welcome ;)
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> Matthias, I haven't done a lot with JSF and Chains yet, but I=20
> am hoping to.  I have done some with Struts and Chains though.
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> Right now I'm using commons-chain in my "service layer" to=20
> handle business logic.  I have a method called getDocument on=20
> my ServiceFacade.  The getDocument method creates an empty=20
> document bean and puts it in the chain context.  Then it=20
> looks up the getDocument command and executes it.
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> Basically I can chain several pieces of logic associated with=20
> document population together in my chain.  The specifics of=20
> the business logic (ex. not all documents have certain=20
> information) are stashed in the individual commands.  If we=20
> add new information to the document, we just write up a new=20
> command and drop it in the chain.
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> I've also used chain to implement transactions with my=20
> connection pool (since I am not using EJB.)  Here is a link=20
> to my initial discussion on that:=20
> http://www.mail-archive.com/user@struts.apache.org/msg12423.ht
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I've since implemented it and it works great.  I can give you more of
the specifics if you're interested.

> Matthias We=DFendorf

sean