Shibboleth Developers

[Andrew Petro <>]

Spring Web Flow does support state transitions that do not involve 
views.  There's a simple "Decision State" feature for boolean branching 
using an expression language and a more advanced "Action State" feature 
for arbitrary branching and calling out to arbitrary Java.

Andrew



On 01/24/2011 01:12 PM, Chad La Joie wrote:
> Before you go very far down this road, make sure you can do state
> transitions without presenting a view.  I looked at webflow briefly for
> another project and it did not appear to support this ability.  In fact
> I saw posting that suggested the way to handle this was to send back
> blank web pages that just redirected to the next step in the flow.
>
> If webflow does not support this it's going to be pretty useless for
> using within the IdP where the majority of the work does not involve a UI.
>
> On 1/24/11 9:45 AM, Andrew Petro wrote:
> > There's a technical bias going into this effort that a good way to
> > immediately enable implementing these use cases is to bridge to the
> > Spring Web Flow<http://www.springsource.org/go-webflow2>  framework and
> > use configurations of Spring Web Flow to implement the attribute-based
> > messaging rules and experiences.