Spring Webflow 3.0

[constv]

Your tone is unacceptable. Frankly, I don't recall ever reading such an angry and obnoxious rant in this forum. You are not gaining any points with that. I am posting the following clarification for the sake of other people reading this thread.

I hear there may be issues using Ajax, specifically, in a Spring 3.0/SWF2.0.8 application. However I don't think it is fair and correct to make blanket statements that SWF2.0.8 is not compatible with Spring 3.0, because this may send many people who are not using Ajax on the wrong path. As I have said, I have recently built an application with very elaborate requirements, and currently finishing another one - using Spring 3.0, SWF 2.0.8, Spring Security 2.0.5 (only b/c I am using HttpInvoker remoting to integrate with a system that uses 2.0.5), JSP 2.1, JSTL 1.2, and Tiles 2.1.3. My applications do not have a requirement to use Ajax (in fact, the clients required that no business functionality should rely on JS, so I have been using JS for visual and usability enhancements only.) The integration has been virtually seamless. As I mentioned in the previous post, yes, SWF 2 can't take advantage of the new S3 conversion and formatting, so an explicitly defined conversion service is required. It is not an obstacle but rather a minor disappointment due to the inability to use one of the new S3 goodies. Nothing I needed to do required a hack or a work-around. I have been using S3 with SWF2 since the M1 release, and hadn't wasted a minute on trying to make things work. So, there you go, people... You have a testimony of someone who has actually built - and continues to build today - applications using Spring 3.0, SWF 2.0.8/Tiles, and someone who tried it with Ajax in the mix, and walked away frustrated and angry. That should give you a fuller picture, I guess...

[triqui]

Just one quick note.

I'm not frustrated nor angry. I just think, that telling people they are wasting their time, just because they prefer to stick to S2 and SWF2, well is a waste of time (and that's what I said). Imagine I tell you, you are wasting your time not using nightly builds, cause there are a lot of new features and bug fixes and everything works perfectly for me with only a little bean here and there.
People who are waiting for swf3 are waiting cause they have a reason. And the main point in the thread is what's going on with swf3, since 3.0.0m1 due date was last wednesday. There are other post discussing how to integrate s3 and swf2.

And, i didn't walk away :P My application works with s3, swf2, tiles and ajax. But I'm really looking forward to using S3 with SWF3. That would allow me to remove a lot of xml and comments from my code, and some classes also.

And business functionality that relies on js? That's nonsense, nobody does that. But ui functionality that uses js to make user's experience smoother, well, that can be a must in some cases.

And there are 3 kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't. :P