Integrating Spring Application server and Spring Webflow

[Beta User]

I have just started looking at the Spring Source App server for a new project and I was wondering how easy/difficult it would be to integrate with the new Spring Webflow (or any other non-OSGi web framework)? Please provide some guidance. I admit I still have a few hundred pages of docs to read through

[robh]

For the most part integrating with WebFlow should run smoothly. The only issue we know of right now is the use of serialization in the Flow Repository which causes a problem in OSGi, but Keith and his team are working on an alternative solution for the OSGi world as I type.

Regards,

Rob

[Beta User]

Thanks for the quick response. Any time frame on the support. I would like to move my project from Tomcat ASAP.

[robh]

We are hoping to have something available tomorrow so there shouldn't be too long to wait

Regards,

Rob

[Beta User]

Thanks Rob. I will start migrating tonight.

[Keith Donald]

Yes, we are applying a patch to Web Flow that should resolve the classloader issues preventing deserialization of flow execution state in a OSGi environment. We'll be working with Rob and Andy and the rest of the platform team on testing out this patch tommorrow.

Best regards,

Keith

[Beta User]

My SWF2.0M1 stuff works fine as a war. Once I figure out how to configure my Maven project to build bundles correctly for SSAP, I will. I use IntelliJ Idea and can't benefit from your tools. I placed a request with them to add support in Idea 8.0 - but maybe some intermediate plugins or clear Maven instructions would help.

Sorry for meandering off topic

[Beta User]

Currently I am developing Webapps using the Struts 2.0 / DOJO / YUI / Spring on Apache Tomcat. How easy is it to move them to this platform.

[robh]

I don't see any reason why that combination should be difficult to move on to the platform. You'll have to make sure Struts 2.0 is a valid OSGi bundle but other than that I hope it would just work.

Rob