Spring Web Flow (SWF) is the sub-project of the Spring Framework that focuses on providing the infrastructure for building and running rich web applications. The project tries to solve 3 core problems facing web application developers:
- How do you express page navigation rules?
- How do you manage navigation and conversational state?
- How do you facilitate modularization and reuse?
| Spring Web Flow | |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.0.5
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| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | Java Virtual Machine |
| Type | Web application framework |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | http://www.springsource.org/webflow |
In Spring Web Flow, a web flow answers all of the above questions: it captures navigational rules allowing the Spring Web Flow execution engine to manage a conversation and the associated state. At the same time, a web flow is a reusable web application module.
History
The Spring Web Flow project started as a simple extension to the Spring Web MVC framework providing web flow functionality, developed by Erwin Vervaet in 2004. In 2005 the project was introduced into the Spring portfolio by Keith Donald and grew into the official Spring sub-project it is now.
References
- Erwin Vervaet: The Definitive Guide to Spring Web Flow, Apress, ISBN 1-4302-1624-7
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