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From: William Huang <WHuang@intralinks.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:22:16 -0400
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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
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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.

-Henrik


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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