portlet webflow with portlet2.0 events

[montgomery]

Does anyone have an example of using portlet 2.0 events with spring webflow 2.1 and spring 3.x? I am trying trying to convert some portlets that use spring 3.0.5 with annotated controllers to webflow portlets while keeping the inter-portlet communication. so far ive just converted the controllers to service classes and all appears to be well but i dont see a way to use events.

i was happy using portlet MVC without webflow but it appears that i need the conversation support to support multiple browser tabs.


Thank you,
montgomery

[ganm]

Hi,

I'm working on something similar.

To fire portlet-events from a webflow, I use a Custom-Action:

package myPackage;

import javax.portlet.ActionResponse;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

import org.springframework.webflow.execution.Action;
import org.springframework.webflow.execution.Event;
import org.springframework.webflow.execution.RequestContext;

public class FireCreateAccountEvent implements Action {
/**
 * Fires portlet 2.0 event to initialize CreateAccount
 */
	public Event execute(RequestContext context) throws Exception {
		
		System.out.println("Fire Account Event");
		ActionResponse response = (ActionResponse) context.getExternalContext().getNativeResponse();
		response.setEvent(new QName("http://myDomain/events", "x:showCreateAccount"), "");
		return new Event(this ,"success");
	}

}

Now, I'm looking for a solution to start Webflows based on a Event, I think, I have to modify the ViewFlowHandler-Bean, but I don't know how at tihs time.

Regards,
Michael