Message contexts and Spring Webflow conversation scope

[Marvin Addison]

> What is the underlying, ah, issue with web flow ? complexity ?
> support from the forum ?

The main problem is that the best reference for customization is the
source itself. The reference document is entirely usage oriented and
the javadocs offer fairly vague advice on implementation
considerations as noted earlier in the thread. They have clearly
designed the API to be extensible, but the lack documentation
addressing extension is a substantial obstacle.

I encourage you to keep investigating Webflow. It's very likely you
can plug in custom components with the needed capabilities, but expect
some head scratching and cursing. Also, it would be worthwhile to
invest heavily in testing to ensure the new components work as
expected. As with all Spring components, it's straightforward to mock
fixtures needed for unit and integration testing.

M