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[Keith Hazelton <>]

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I'm sure you've worked with Chad before.    

          Thanks for everything,    --Keith
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On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:20, Andrew Petro wrote:

> 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
> 
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> 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.
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