Friday, October 05, 2007

Using spring's webflow package

As an architect I get a lot of challenging questions.
Like this week, a team of the company I am currently working for needs to migrate a number of simple applications written in PHP to a J2EE environment.
In addition to this, the first release will run as standalone web applications while in the (near) future they need to be incorporated into the soon to be released company web portal.
So I needed to come up with a way that simplifies the transition of a web application into a portlet application.
Since almost any web application can be in different states, as is the case with these applications, I thought of Spring's webflow package.
Spring's webflow uses either Spring Web MVC or Spring Portlet MVC underneath, so is it possible to easily swap either of them without changing the code?

Let's find out...

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