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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:15:36 +0200
From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerald_M=FCllan?=" <bierbrauen@gmail.com>
To: "MyFaces Discussion" <users@myfaces.apache.org>
Subject: Re: wizard-style JSF application: looking for words of wisdom
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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 <WHuang@intralinks.com> 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
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> 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.
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> On 9/15/06, Adam Brod <ABrod@intralinks.com> 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" <hbentel.ml@gmail.com> wrote on 09/15/2006 11:22:56 AM:
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> >
> >  > 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
> >
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