Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development -- Table of Contents -- Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code for the book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction -- Three cornerstones: Spring, Spring MVC, and Spring Web Flow -- Spring Framework -- Spring MVC -- Spring Web Flow -- What is Spring Web Flow -- The elements of Spring Web Flow: flow, view, and conversation -- Flow -- View -- Conversation -- The Spring Web Flow elements: an example -- The new major release: Spring Web Flow 2.0 -- Spring Web Flow -- Spring Faces -- Spring JavaScript -- Spring Binding -- Introduction to a new version -- Automatic model binding -- Support for a new expression language -- Flash scope is now a real flash scope -- Spring Faces -- Flow managed persistence -- External redirects -- Summary -- 2. Setup for Spring Web Flow 2 -- Installation of Spring Web Flow 2 -- Inside the distribution -- The examples inside the distribution -- Building the examples from the source code -- Installing the examples on your local machine -- Support for developers -- Build systems -- Ant -- Maven -- IDE -- Eclipse and Spring IDE -- NetBeans -- A sample for a quick start -- Overview over the example -- The basics -- Building the service and database layer -- The web.xml file -- Dependencies -- Summary -- 3. The Basics of Spring Web Flow 2 -- Elements of a flow -- The entry point to the flow -- Section head -- Section data -- The metadata of a flow -- Persistence context -- FlowScoped Persistence Context -- Direct usage of persistence-context -- Usage of the persistence-context attribute -- Section input -- Programming in a flow -- The scopes.

Resolving variables -- The flow instance variables -- Assign a value to a scope variable -- Access the value of a scope -- Inputs -- The states -- The start-state -- The action-state and execution of business logic -- Details of a transition -- The view-state -- Validation inside the view-state -- More details about validation -- The decision-state -- The subflow-state -- The end-state -- The exit point -- Section footer -- global-transitions: global handling of events -- on-end: execution of actions at the end of the flow -- output: output of the flow -- exception-handler: exceptions between the execution of a flow -- bean-import: declaring beans for a flow -- Internals of building a flow -- Configuration -- FlowRegistry -- FlowExecutor -- FlowExecutor Listeners -- Internals of the Webflow Configuration -- Inheritance inside a flow definition -- Inheritance for flows -- Inheritance for states -- Merge or no merge -- The complete flow for the example -- Summary -- 4. Spring Faces -- Enabling Spring Faces support -- Inside the Facelets technology -- The ResourceServlet -- Internals of the ResourceServlet -- Configuration of the application context -- Using Spring Faces -- Overview of all tags of the Spring Faces tag library -- A complete example -- Creating the input page -- The Header part -- The Name part -- The Description part -- The Fix until part -- The Buttons part -- Handling of errors -- Reflecting the actions of the buttons into the flow definition file -- Showing the results -- Integration with other JavaServer Faces component libraries -- Integration with JBoss RichFaces -- Integration with Apache MyFaces Trinidad -- Summary -- 5. Mastering Spring Web Flow -- Subflows -- Spring JavaScript -- What is AJAX? -- Installing Spring JavaScript -- The first example with Spring JavaScript -- Apache Tiles integration -- Tiles and AJAX.

The Web Flow configuration -- flow -- attribute -- secured -- persistence-context -- var -- input -- output -- actionTypes -- evaluate -- render -- set -- on-start -- on-end -- transition -- global-transitions -- exception-handler -- bean-import -- action-state -- view-state -- decision-state -- subflow-state -- end-state -- Summary -- 6. Testing Spring Web Flow Applications -- How to test a Spring Web Flow application -- The first example -- A look into the source code -- First steps in testing -- Testing Persistent Contexts -- A short introduction to EasyMock -- Testing subflows -- More testing with EasyMock -- Summary -- 7. Security -- Introducing Spring Security -- Installing Spring Security -- Basic authentication with Spring Security -- Setting up your web.xml -- Advanced Spring Security configuration -- UserDetails -- Using database access to retrieve users -- Securing parts of a web page -- Securing method invocations -- Using Spring Security with Spring Web Flow -- Changing the user's password -- Summary -- A. flow.trac:The Model for the Examples -- flow.trac -- Item -- User -- Role -- Project -- Issue -- Type -- Priority -- Comment -- Attachment -- Summary -- B. Running on the SpringSource dm Server -- Introduction to the SpringSource dm Server -- Installation of the SpringSource dm Server -- Migrating an application -- Summary -- Index.