Re: Workflow implementation with Struts

2006-08-31 Thread Monkeyden
As I mentioned, many webflows have a series of screens, each of which builds on the preceding screens. The example I gave showed that the first couple screens would select an employee id and department id. This might be a good save point in the webflow because a relationship was made (EMP -> DEP

Re: Workflow implementation with Struts

2006-08-31 Thread Joel Espinosa
Thanks for your quick responses. I agree with you Monkeyden, there are differences between two definitions webflow and workflow, I'm planing to code a webflow. Monkeyden your aproach is very close to what I need but... certainly I need to use save points, but if I use them between tables this

Re: Workflow implementation with Struts

2006-08-31 Thread Monkeyden
Ah, now I see. What you're looking for is a way to persist incomplete webflows. Well, in a *typical* webflow, you have 1 screen per table, where each screen is a new record/relationship. Each subsequent screen might use the previous screen's primary key (or composite, if necessary for the relat

Re: Workflow implementation with Struts

2006-08-31 Thread fausto mancini
I've worked with similar requirements for a project some times ago. it was a questionnaire (very long) and the user have the possibility to stop and resume even in different sessions... My solution was persistence; I saved data in a file (xml format) to achieve this goal (a database can do the s

Re: Workflow implementation with Struts

2006-08-31 Thread Monkeyden
Understanding that different companies interpret them in different ways, I have always thought of webflow and workflow in the following terms: webflow - the path by which a user travels through a WEB application to complete a unit of work. An example would be a series of screens used by a manage