Add support for Spring 2.5 @Controller @RequestMapping annotations for "REST-ful" flows [SWF-396]

[spring-operator]

Keith Donald opened SWF-396 and commented

This ticket should introduce a tailored configuration dialect to engineer flows that invoke stateless services in REST-style.

This system should support rendering responses in HTML (for user agents) and XML (for REST ws clients).

This is similiar to what the CRUD functionality provides, but more flexible as it allows for mapping onto existing services. It's not as flexible as the general flow definition language, but rather a tailored dialect for invoking REST-ful services.

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Affects: 1.0.4

Issue Links:

• Introduce a message context abstraction for reporting messages [SWF-296] #158 Introduce a message context abstraction for reporting messages
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• Introduce a successor to FormAction for data binding and validation [SWF-297] #159 Introduce a successor to FormAction for data binding and validation
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[spring-operator]

Keith Donald commented

We will not be attempting to implement the @Controller model on SWF internals. Spring MVC will continue to remain the home of the specification and implementation of the @Controller model, and will continue to integrate with the Web Flow model.