Hi all,
I'd like to know how others are building wizard types of applications
using JSF/Backing Beans.
I realise that Shale & WebFlow are going to help on this but was
wondering how others are doing it with *standard * JSF tools.
I have a booking process that needs to gather information in five steps
before persisting the data. I have (at least) two backing beans; one
called Booking which gathers the data from the 5 different steps and
has session scope, the other called BookingController which actually
controls the flow through the 5 diff. steps by capturing the diff.
submit events, this bean has request scope. I thought this better than
defining a diff. bean per page, which is what some people seem to be
implementing, but am not completely happy with the result. In order to
actually get the info into the database etc I still have to copy
properties from my backing bean into a domain Object for persistance via
Hibernate; ie seperate beans for name, address & flight info. It might
be better to try and fill the domain objects eralier through filling in
the form and passing in via the backing bean; ie cut out the middle man
:-) but would still have a problem holding on to data in session.
Could I have done this better/different/easier without the use of
Shale/WebFlow & utilising request scope better?
I look forward to your comments.
/Colin
