Message contexts and Spring Webflow conversation scope

[Cantor, Scott]

On 2/28/13 1:02 PM, "Tom Zeller" <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:

>> Of course, that behavioral contract only gets "enforced" if something
>> (e.g. servlet container) actually tries to serialize a given instance.
>
>I need to do more background work, but I thought the result was that
>we would not worry about container persistence of conversation scope,
>since most of the time it would be in-memory and short lived. In other
>words, persistence within a flow across cluster nodes was not a
>deliverable.
>
>Would need Chad to comment if I am getting this right.

No, that was our decision, but Brent's concern was that people would get
errors from their container if they did things like restart them if their
default session persistence behavior was to invoke the serialization.

I can easily believe that, but I didn't know that to be the case.

-- Scott