Hello,
I'm looking for ideas on how to keep a kind of
conversational state in a web application. I think
that the servlet forum is the most appropriate place
to discuss this since servlets are used for navigation
control (as recommended).
I try to use an MVC architecture for my transactional
web application, such as one implemented on Sun site
("petstore application" for those interested). So far,
I'm quite satisfied with it. But here's my problem:
Users quite agree with me not to use those damned Back
and Forward buttons due to problems they may cause.
But then, they would like me to propose my own Back
and Forward buttons in the contents of the pages, and
a kind of history from the first page to the latest,
no matter how many they have been through.
I know that one ambition of Struts is to develop this,
I don't know if it works yet. Any Struts user who can
confirm this?
So I intend to put a Stack container in each user's
session, and put inside every page they are through.
The questions are: what kind of object to put in to
keep track of contents of pages they have been
through? And how to implement the piling and depiling
so that history is kept?
Is there any recommended design pattern?
My pages are mostly implemented by jsp's, or even by a
collaboration of jsp's (through include tags). And I
use one front controller servlet to handle requests
and flows.
Thanks in advance for any idea, hint, article,
website, book on the subject.
Vincent
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