First Project with Web-Flow

[JohnTheDroider]

I am trying to build a sample web-flow project based on the one from the book "Expert Spring MVS and Web Flow" but I am getting the following error as my project starts.

2012-07-18 12:45:01,253 [http-8080-1] DEBUG org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultL istableBeanFactory - Ignoring bean class loading failure for bean '/purchase.htm'
org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanCl assException: Cannot find class [org.springframework.webflow.manager.mvc.FlowContro ller] for bean with name '/purchase.htm' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.webflow.manager.mvc.FlowContro ller

does anyone know any easyer example to learn//

[Marten Deinum]

Just one question do you have Expert Spring MVC or Pro Spring MVC? Because that matters greatly. As the author of the latter I was looking into this (together with Koen) however we don't have a spring-servlet.xml nor a bean with the name /purchase.htm.

However the error you seem to have indicates that there is a missing dependency for webflow (maybe it doesn't get deployed properly).

[JohnTheDroider]

yes.. I am doing the sample from CHAPTER
11 and 12...

[Marten Deinum]

Could you answer which book you have... Because that greatly matters, as mentioned in the previous post in our book (the Pro one) there is no spring-servlet.xml nor any purchase.htm named bean.

[JohnTheDroider]

Expert Spring MVS and Web Flow

[Marten Deinum]

Ok, that at least lowers my stress level , however you still have the problem. (I now nothing about the samples shipped with Expert Spring MVC as I did Pro Spring MVC the new book).

Make sure that you have added the webflow jar files to the project and that the project is build and deployed correctly.

[JohnTheDroider]

thanks marten.. As you can see I am the Staten Island Java Group leader.. anyway to get a "NOT FOR RESALE" PDF version

[Marten Deinum]

For that you would have to contact the publisher that is out-of-my-hands . Maybe you can trade-in/swap your Expert Spring MVC version for the new one, depending on when you bought it..

[JohnTheDroider]

I had it for a few years... but never opened it until this week lol

[JohnTheDroider]

still cant get my hello world flow working.. so I posted the war with the source here on dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/5mojqctfqk...oWorldFlow.war

Please let me know if you can help