On 9/1/05, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's like the difference between reusing common code by refactoring it > into a separate method, and calling it, versus reusing common code by > cut-n-paste. I prefer the former :-). Incidentally, this aspect of dialog's > design came straight from Spring WebFlow, which draws the same sort of > distinction (although they manage per-webflow state quite a lot > differently). >
Of course, right after I pressed Send I thought of an even clearer way to look at it ... the state object of a subdialog is like the local variables stack of a method call that is currently in progress. It's contents are visible *within* that subdialog/method, but not outside. Craig
