Comments on: Spring MVC Wizards & Form Taglib

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:31:23 +0000

Mmm, I remember looking at Webflow at the time, and it seemed to be a better engineered system for this kind of thing, however I was halfway through the project and didn’t have the time to learn something new all over again.

The other gripe I had with it at the time was its unsightly mangling of URLs. Obviously this is only a question of taste, as end-users barely look at urls anyway.
Don’t take my word for it though, my foray into the Webflow docs was very brief.

By: Phil Haigh

Phil Haigh — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:00:16 +0000

The best way to implement a wizard form would be to use Spring Webflow, which you can mix and match with MVC. Of course, that may not satisfy your lesson objective but, given that Spring MVC (and Struts) are getting a bit long in the tooth, it might be more appropriate to teach a more advanced technology such as Webflow.

I’ve spent the last week or so looking into Webflow and it makes wizard implementation very simple.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:36:06 +0000

Interesting… although I’m still having problems with the slow loading of JSP pages that use spring-forms taglib. Hope to fix it soon =/