Sean, I could not figure out form the documentation which data is kept during conversation time, is it the page controller, or all data accessed during conversation time?
Werner Sean Schofield schrieb: > Shale dialogs do, however, have a mechanism for storing objects > between requests. So in that sense they are similar to t:saveState. > I've never really used save-state before but I have some experience > with Shale dialogs. > > Shale dialogs are excellent. Its the only feature of Shale that I am > using in a production system at the moment (also view controllers.) > But there is plenty more to Shale then dialogs. Check out the link > that was suggested in the previous message. > > Sean > > On 2/10/06, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> CONNER, BRENDAN (SBCSI) wrote: >>> After having done several native MyFaces application implementations, >>> I'm just starting to do initial research into Shale. The motivation to >>> do this is that, from my understanding, Shale offers a framework >>> allowing relatively painless debugging of JSF actions. >>> >>> I noticed on the site that Shale provides support for multi-screen >>> "conversations" via its Dialog Manager. Can someone comment on how >>> using this compares to using <t:saveState>? Are there situations in >>> which using one is preferred to using the other? >> They do rather different things. t:saveState allows you to 'attach' >> arbitrary data to the saved view state, effectively allowing you to >> preserve backing bean state or other data across requests. >> >> Shale Dialogs is more like a simple workflow management framework; it >> allows you to describe a series of states and state transitions that >> represent a 'dialog' between the user and your application. I think >> Shale Dialogs and Spring Webflow are pretty similar in intent, if the >> comparison helps. >> >>> Also, what other benefits (or drawbacks) can I expect from using Shale? >>> (I probably should ask this in the Shale user group, but I figured >>> people in this user group would have some interesting feedback as well.) >> Shale is a 'value added' framework for JSF; in other words, it adds >> various useful features on top of what JSF already provides. For an >> overview of what's available, see the Shale Features section of the >> project site: >> >> http://struts.apache.org/struts-shale/index.html#Shale_Features >> >> L. >> >> >
