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[jsr344-experts] Re: [730-TaskFlows] PROPOSAL

From: David Schneider <david.schneider_at_oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:37:07 -0600

On 03/06/2012 08:27 PM, Edward Burns wrote:
> ACTION: David Schneider, can you please answer these two specific
> questions?
>
> Is there ever a case where you want to collect the attributes from a
> single View Activity instance, and associate them with a collection of
> views, rather than just a single view?
>
> In other words is there always a 1:1 mapping between View Activity and
> view? I'm wondering if the view activity can be specified within the
> <f:metadata> section for a page.
>
In ADF Task Flows there is a 1:Many relationship between view activities
and VDL documents (a.k.a. pages). The view activity supports metadata
regarding input parameters, bookmarking, redirect, etc. I can envision
a solution where a developer may want both instance/use specific
metadata such as ADF supports on the view activity and VDL document
based metadata that would apply to all uses of that document.

Dave