Spring Web Flow Documentation

Introduction

The Spring Web Flow module allows the implementation of flows. This means that you can easily define a sequence of steps in a journey through the use of XML files. This allows long transactional journeys to be easily created.

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate how to utilise the Spring Web Flow module.

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Setup
• 2. Essentials
  • View States
  • Transitions
  • End States
• 3. Handling Data
  • What can be used as a variable?
  • Input
  • Variables
  • Variable Scopes
    • Flow Scope
    • View Scope
    • Request Scope
    • Conversation Scope
  • Evaluation
  • Spring Beans
• 4. More States
  • Decision States
  • Action States
• 5. Subflows
  • Defining a subflow
  • Input and output
• 6. Forms on the frontend.md
  • Creating a form which can be submitted
  • Validating a form
• 7. Action execution
  • on-start
  • on-entry
  • on-exit
  • on-end
  • on-render
  • on-transition
• 8. Security
  • Using Spring Security configuration
  • Using built-in functions within Spring Web Flow
• 9. Flow Inheritance
  • How is flow inheritance different to Java inheritance
  • Abstract flows vs normal flows
  • What elements can be merged