Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Struts Flow: Continations come to Struts

techno.blog("Dion"): Struts Flow: Continations come to Struts: "Wow, Struts is a huge project:
Today, Struts is comprised of nine subprojects: Core, Taglib, Tiles, El, Faces, Scripting, Applications, Shale, and (now) Flow.
The Struts team just announced Struts Flow which brings a continuations based approach to web flows.
This is interesting stuff, and we have seen continuations popup in other communities such as Ruby, Perl, and Smalltalk.
Seaside was the first web framework that I saw with continuations, and it intrigued me from the beginning. It really does make sense to have the users 'session' to be the core. In fact, on our projects, we put a lot of functionality there (even if it just ties into the business layers etc).
It will be interesting to see how Struts Flow gets adopted.
Take a look at an example of putting the logic in one workflow, even though web pages are being sent around to get input from the user: "

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