Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Three cornerstones: Spring, Spring MVC, and Spring Web Flow
• Spring Framework
• Spring MVC
• Spring Web Flow
• What is Spring Web Flow
• The elements of Spring Web Flow: flow, view, and conversation
• Flow
• View
• Conversation
• The Spring Web Flow elements: an example
• The new major release: Spring Web Flow 2.0
• Spring Web Flow
• Spring Faces
• Spring JavaScript
• Spring Binding
• Introduction to a new version
• Automatic model binding
• Support for a new expression language
• Flash scope is now a real flash scope
• Spring Faces
• Flow managed persistence
• External redirects
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Setup for Spring Web Flow 2
• Installation of Spring Web Flow 2
• Inside the distribution
• The examples inside the distribution
• Building the examples from the source code
• Installing the examples on your local machine
• Support for developers
• Build systems
• Ant
• Maven
• IDE
• Eclipse and Spring IDE
• NetBeans
• A sample for a quick start
• Overview over the example
• The basics
• Building the service and database layer
• The web.xml file
• Dependencies
• Summary

• Chapter 3: The Basics of Spring Web Flow 2
• Elements of a flow
• The entry point to the flow
• Section head
• Section data
• The metadata of a flow
• Section input
• Programming in a flow
• The scopes
• The flow instance variables
• Assign a value to a scope variable
• Access the value of a scope
• Inputs
• The states
• The start-state
• The action-state and execution of business logic
• The view-state
• The decision-state
• The subflow-state
• The end-state
• The exit point
• Section footer
• global-transitions: global handling of events
• on-end: execution of actions at the end of the flow
• output: output of the flow
• exception-handler: exceptions between the execution of a flow
• bean-import: declaring beans for a flow
• Internals of building a flow
• Configuration
• FlowRegistry
• FlowExecutor
• FlowExecutor Listeners
• Internals of the Webflow Configuration
• Inheritance inside a flow definition
• Inheritance for flows
• Inheritance for states
• Merge or no merge
• The complete flow for the example
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Spring Faces
• Enabling Spring Faces support
• Inside the Facelets technology
• The ResourceServlet
• Internals of the ResourceServlet
• Configuration of the application context
• Using Spring Faces
• Overview of all tags of the Spring Faces tag library
• A complete example
• Creating the input page
• Handling of errors
• Reflecting the actions of the buttons into the flow definition file
• Showing the results
• Integration with other JavaServer Faces component libraries
• Integration with JBoss RichFaces
• Integration with Apache MyFaces Trinidad
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Mastering Spring Web Flow
• Subflows
• Spring JavaScript
• What is AJAX?
• Installing Spring JavaScript
• The first example with Spring JavaScript
• Apache Tiles integration
• Tiles and AJAX
• The Web Flow configuration
• flow
• attribute
• secured
• persistence-context
• var
• input
• output
• actionTypes
• evaluate
• render
• set
• on-start
• on-end
• transition
• global-transitions
• exception-handler
• bean-import
• action-state
• view-state
• decision-state
• subflow-state
• end-state
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Testing Spring Web Flow Applications
• How to test a Spring Web Flow application
• The first example
• A look into the source code
• First steps in testing
• Testing Persistent Contexts
• A short introduction to EasyMock
• Testing subflows
• More testing with EasyMock
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Security
• Introducing Spring Security
• Installing Spring Security
• Basic authentication with Spring Security
• Setting up your web.xml
• Advanced Spring Security configuration
• UserDetails
• Using database access to retrieve users
• Securing parts of a web page
• Securing method invocations
• Using Spring Security with Spring Web Flow
• Changing the user's password
• Summary

• Appendix A: flow.trac:The Model for the Examples
• flow.trac
• Item
• User
• Role
• Project
• Issue
• Type
• Priority
• Comment
• Attachment
• Summary

• Appendix B: Running on the SpringSource dm Server
• Introduction to the SpringSource dm Server
• Installation of the SpringSource dm Server
• Migrating an application
• Summary

• Index