Hi,
I'm not a freak, but very interested in wizard-like web-applications, which could be
configured declaratively, without programming ;-)
I've seen a very good example in the book of Turau & al. J2EE and JSP, in German.
He extends the ActionMappingBase.class and introduces a step-name-attribute.
The wizard is configured in a wiz.xml, where you define views, the fields, the next
step etc.
The ActionForwards use these extended ActionMappings.
But have a look at his homepage:
Here is the link to the book-description, where you find a link to the
wizard.application
http://shannon.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/jsp/j2ee/
Would be very interested in an ongoing discussion on this topic!
Dimitris
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Glenn Kidd [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 28. August 2001 19:42
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Workflow question
>
> I am currently working on a wizrad like workflow. The user will go through
> several "views" in order to collect all of the data required. After the
> data is required the Action class will do the usual interactions with the
> business API's, etc. Ideally I would like to use one Action class for each
> page. The barrier that I have come against is, how does the Action class
> know what the next view is? I suppose I could use the "referer" header or
> similarly request.getRequestURI() and forword on based on the value, but
> this seems less than ideal. Does anyone else have any suggestions on other
> approaches I might take. Any help will be much appreciated.
>
>
>
> Glenn Kidd
