[Springframework-developer] new controller type

[Ronald H. <rh...@co...>]

Hello all,

last months I have been looking around in the springframework, and I
really liked what I saw. So I thought to merge my own workflow system with
the spring framework. After some time of working on it, it is now
available as open source for all of you to enjoy.

The main features of the workflow system that I have made is the
navigation aspect on the html level. Many jsp pages have a common menu to
navigate the site. To show all the correct menu items on a page, you have
to be aware of the page you are working on and update the menu on each
page. With the workflow system that I have made up, you only have to have
one include.jsp with all of the navigation actions that are allowed. Based
on the settings of an configuration xml file, the system will determine
which actions should be available to users and which not. This is also
dependant on the role of a logged in user. Also with the workflow system,
you can stack multiple controllers and let them perform their methods
before returning a page.

The website is available at www.competities.com/springworkflow and in
sourceforge.net you can download the cvs sources. The sources come with a
demo rss reader in which all the aspects of the workflow system are
(hopefully) demonstrated.

Hopefully this is interesting enough for other people and maybe even
usefull enought to get incorporated into the main spring mvc system.

Gr
Ronald