Message contexts and Spring Webflow conversation scope

[Cantor, Scott]

On 2/27/13 7:29 PM, "Brent Putman" <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:

>The issue is that, by default, anything you store in conversation scope
>must be serializable (as in implements java.io.Serializable), because
>their default impl simply stores the conversation container object in
>the HttpSession as a session attribute.

Is that a function of their code in some way, or is that always required
of anything stored as a session attribute?

I know containers can persist sessions, but I didn't think it was a
requirement that they be able to do so in a given deployment.

Anyway, obviously sounds like something we need to know. And if not, does
it matter? Is it a problem to use our own context lookup code via a cookie
that the actions just use?

-- Scott