how can i start a web flow?

[Kristofer]

Like I said, it kinda supports it. I know there have been conflicts between certain classes/packages between SWF 2 and Spring 3 (see this thread for more).

SWF 3 is under development, and one of its tasks is to fully integrate with Spring 3 (see the JIRA for milestone 1).

If I'm reading it correctly, M1 release is this coming Wednesday.

I started messing around with urlrewrite.xml (I removed the red bit):

<urlrewrite default-match-type="wildcard">
	<rule>
		<from>/</from>
		<to>/app/welcome</to>
	</rule>
	<rule>
		<from>/**</from>
		<to>/app/$1</to>
	</rule>
	<outbound-rule>
		<from>/app/**</from>
		<to>/$1</to>
	</outbound-rule>	
</urlrewrite>

...and something happened (I got an exception, yay!) when I tried navigating to myAppName/app/registration:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported view type /WEB-INF/flows/registration/step1 only types supported by this FlowViewResolver implementation are [.jsp] and [.jspx]

Extremly puzzling as step1.jsp most definately is a jsp and it is placed inside WEB-INF/flows/registration

EDIT: I got it to work! I removed the red part from <view-state id="step1" view="steg"> in my -flow.xml and suddenly my first flow state loaded. Now I'll just have no figure out how to fix the urlrewrite so that it maps /registration to /app/registration. Thanks for all the help InverseFalcon!

[Kristofer]

Hmm...

If I remove the * from the filter-mapping in web.xml I'm able to trigger the flow by adding app/registration to the base url, but then I also have to add app as a prefix whenever I call a controller. Not exactly what I wanted. :-(

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

Here are the rules in urlrewrite.xml:

<rule>
		<from>/</from>
		<to>/app/welcome</to>
	</rule>
	<rule>
		<from>/**</from>
		<to>/app/$1</to>
	</rule>
	<rule>
		<from>/styles/**</from>
		<to>/app/styles/$1</to>
	</rule>
	
	<outbound-rule>
		<from>/app/**</from>
		<to>/$1</to>
	</outbound-rule>

Is there some smart expression I can use to remove the need to prefix every call with /app/ ?

[alexk-il]

Link ... and it seems to be already fixed. I guess we will see the fix in the next STS release.

I wonder if there is any way to get the full fix description before that?

Best
Alex