Hi Don,
A quick google indicated that you're the man, when it comes to struts-flow. Thanks for the effort. No dis intended if I said anything annoying. As for the documentation, the cocoon site had plenty of it.
I mainly asked because: 1) there seem to be two projects which perform similar functionality. 2) If my project had to pick one, I'd rather pick the "right one". 3) It's not that easy to compare by reading the docs.
As far as the server side javascript goes, it's not complex: all our developers know javascript for browser-stuff. It's just a new use for an old tool.
I wouldn't worry too much about "officialness"; Don is still the only person who has done much with struts-flow (from a code development/maintenance perspective.)
From my recollection, the principal developer behind struts-workflow has not had much time to continue work on it, but there was a decent community of interested users. (If that's true, hopefully someone from that community would speak up here!) There was interest in seeing how it would "port" to the new chain-based request processor, but I haven't heard anything about anyone taking that on. (I'm interested in looking at how it might be done, but have no idea if I'll actually have time to look at it, let alone do it!) Of course, if you're still using Struts 1.1 or 1.2, that doesn't matter that much.
I'm generally interested in workflow solutions, but haven't had time to review the libraries nor the urgency to develop my own. With all due respect to Don, when I asked one of my developers to use struts-flow for a simple project, she came away with a not-very-favorable impression. From her implementation of validation (a big 200 line long javascript method), I can see why it wouldn't seem so exciting, but I bet that someone with more javascript experience could find some different ways to organize it. Still, I'd be more excited if it could tap into Struts' own validation mechanism.
Like any open source project, it needs people who are willing to treat the code as their own and use it and improve it. You don't have to be a committer to do that...
Joe
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