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

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

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:46:42 -0500, Keith Donald <ke...@in...> wrote:
> Seth,
> 
> Excellent idea.
> 
> If we extract an interface from the HttpServletExecutionManager, we get
> something like:
> 
> public interface FlowExecutionStorage {
>     public FlowExecution loadFrom(Event inputEvent);
>     public void saveOrUpdate(FlowExecution flowExecution);
>     public void remove(FlowExecution flowExecution);
> }
> 
> Or something like that.  Erwin what do you think? Need to think about it
> more.  I imagine here the FlowExecutionStack would have to be reconstructed
> from the Event parameters, for example: http request parameters, in an http
> servlet environment.  It also has to be rehydrated with services on
> deserialization as well, including the FlowLocator and its
> FlowExecutionListenerList.


Keith,

Just so I'm clear... this isn't to replace the concept and purpose of
the HttpSession?  This is just to provide a way to get the state info
of the flow into the request to avoid the need for session creation?

Thanks!
Seth