Comments on: Spring Finance > Part 5: Spring Web Flow Integration

By: Greg Ederer

Greg Ederer — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:04:47 +0000

The ContextLoaderListener in RC1 requires that a bean with the name “conversionService” be of type org.springframework.core.convert.ConversionService; however, FlowBuilderServices will not accept an object of this type. Even webflow 3.0.0M1 does not accept this (will this be aligned?)

I worked around this by changing the name in the @Component annotation in ApplicationConversionService to “conversionServiceOld”. Made the same change to the webflow context XML.

Thanks for this terrific series! –G

By: sschmidt

sschmidt — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:28:54 +0000

@Jim

Spring MVC is stateless so would need to deal with this manually. As far as Spring Web Flow goes – as soon as the flow (within the application) has started the back button functionality should actually work without any problems. But just combining MVC and Web Flow does not introduce ‘new features’ to MVC per se if that is what you are asking .

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:05:23 +0000

Given your use of Web Flow and MVC, is the browser’s back button supported. I know SWF supports the back button no problem, but wasn’t sure if MVC does, or if you use both?

By: Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:07:19 +0000

Great blog post Stephan.
Great diagram Niel. Makes Web Flow easier.

By: Niel Eyde

Niel Eyde — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:02:51 +0000

I’m not sure if this would be helpful to other readers, but I created an alternative diagram of the flow.
http://www.skywayperspectives.org/images/swf/swfdiagram1.jpg

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