Spring WebFlow Sneak Preview: Reuse and Framework Abstraction
Spring WebFlow is a new Web framework that brings an innovative and highly structured approach to building Web applications. Get a sneak peek of the features in this next-generation Spring offering.
by Edmon Begoli
May 5, 2005
he Spring framework, a lightweight open source J2EE container previously featured on these pages, is about to introduce a significant new feature as part of its already impressive offering. With the next release (1.3 , scheduled for summer of 2005) Spring will officially incorporate Spring WebFlow, an innovative, high-level Web framework for creating and configuring reusable Web flows within a Web application.
Those familiar with Spring may mistakenly assume Spring WebFlow is the same as Spring MVC. It's not. Spring MVC is a lightweight framework for Web application development, while Spring WebFlow introduces a whole new value proposition. It enables Web application architects to focus on the more abstract concerns of Web application development: the structure of logical Web flows and the definition of Web event conditions. Furthermore, it introduces new concepts such as continuations (more on those shortly).
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