Re: [Springframework-developer] SWF - Creating HTTP sessions - Feedback needed

[Seth L. <set...@gm...>]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:49:24 -0500, Keith Donald <ke...@in...> wrote:
> Just thinking out loud here, but no, I don't think this would be too
> difficult to implement.  There is potentially lot to serialize out on each
> request, though, particularly if you a flow execution that has spawned many
> nested subflows.
> 
> Methinks we could have custom tag that serializes the FlowExecutionStack on
> each request.  This would include serializing:
> - The ID of the flow execution (randomly generated guid)
> - The stack of IDs of all spawned flows, the top being the active flow and
> the rest any suspended parent flows (if the active flow is a subflow)
> - For each flow in the stack, everything in 'flow scope'.

Keith,

Sounds like there might be two Strategies here for storing the
FlowExecutionStack: HttpSession Strategy and HttpRequest Strategy. 
The developer can then choose the strategy for their needs, as there
are good use cases for not requiring a session.

Seth