Spring Webflow 3.0

[agurkas]

Also will JSF2 be supported if there will be further webflow releases?

[stephanl]

Well, the real question is "Will there be a Spring Web Flow 3 release?"

[steveroderick]

I am also wondering about this? Keith - any plans for a Webflow 3?

[Keith Donald]

Sorry for the lack of response here these days, I've been active in our JIRA system lately work with Juergen and his team on Spring Framework 3. But I do have good news about Web Flow -- Web Flow 3 development is starting up now, and as usual I and the rest of the developers expect to be active here through the release process.

Here's information about the Web Flow 3 roadmap so far:

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Web Flow 3 development is beginning now, with the first milestone expected in late February 2010. Up until now, we've been focused on Spring Framework 3, where many features in that important release were actually driven by Web Flow's needs (SpEL, type conversion, validation etc). The Web Flow 3.0 final release will align with Spring Framework 3.1. We are targeting a 6 month iteration, so that means the release is targeted to be in June or July of 2010.

The roadmap consists of:

* Java 5 + Spring 3 Foundation (which includes a general ConversationManagement facility that is scheduled for Spring 3.1)
* POJO-based Flow Definition with deeper Spring MVC @Controller integration (what we believe will be the flagship new feature)
* Ability to Configure Custom FlowExecutionRepository via the webflow-config XML Namespace
* Improved Flow Exception Handling on Backtracking: Return to last valid Flow State
* Portlet 2.0 Support
* JSF 2.0 Support

Let me know if I can answer any other questions about Web Flow 3! Looking forward to the first mile stone and discussing it with you -

Thanks

Keith

[figura]

Hi Keith,

I was wondering if there are any plans for updating Spring IDE tools for Web Flow.

In my opinion, the graphical editor is a great way to understand a flow in a quick glance, but this tool is lacking some features, and I haven't seen updates for a while.

Any news?

Regards,

Figura

[Nicolas]

Hello Keith,

Thanks for sharing the roadmap.
My team would like to use SpringFramework 3.0 as soon as possible and currently webflow is the only reason that make us stick with 2.5.
So my question is: do you have any plan to make a release (not a milestone) of SWF that would rely on spring 3.0 dependencies without using all the new features there and without introducing new features?

Thanks for the amazing job done so far.
Sincerely,
Nicolas.

[Keith Donald]

Nicolas,

Web Flow 3.0.0.M1 will give you exactly what you're looking for. It's scheduled for February. I'm anxious to get a version of Web Flow 3.0 designed for Spring 3 out as well.

Keith

[piedrahitac]

Thanks a lot for the information Keith, I was dying to know some approximate release dates as I'm really looking forward to using Spring 3.0 many advantages, and as some have said, Web Flow was kind of slowing that process... The first milestone will certainly give us something to play/test looking forward to the mid-year release, awesome!

[constv]

Thanks a lot for the information Keith, I was dying to know some approximate release dates as I'm really looking forward to using Spring 3.0 many advantages, and as some have said, Web Flow was kind of slowing that process... The first milestone will certainly give us something to play/test looking forward to the mid-year release, awesome!

This is not really true, at all. I have recently built a fairly large application using SWF 2.0.8 and Spring 3.0. The only restriction was that I had to register a separate old-style conversion service bean within the flow context, while using the new 3.0 conversion service for everything else. If you have been waiting for SWF 3 to use Spring 3.0, you have wasted a lot of time for nothing, really. Of course, now that SWF is - supposedly - around the corner, you might as well wait a bit more - if you are starting a new project.

[triqui]

Yeah, sure. Everything is as easy as you said.

There are some things that work with Spring 3 and swf 2, there are some things that can be hacked to work with Spring 3 and swf 2, but there are still some other things that don't work with spring 3 and swf 2 unless you really want to waste a lot of time fixing them. So don't tell people they are wasting their time, cause it is you who is wasting our time with such comments.

If you want to reply, before you do it, please let me know how can I get Spring 3, swf 2, tiles and ajax to work together. Thanks for your time.