>>>>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:03:10 -0600, David Schneider <david.schneider_at_oracle.com> said:
DS> Sorry for the late response, I've been a bit under the weather lately.
DS> On 3/16/2012 9:01 AM, Edward Burns wrote:
DS> This flow is used to create/edit some type of data record (e.g. a
DS> customer contact, employee, etc.). The flow's starting point, its
DS> 'default activity', is indicated with the green halo.
EB> Obviously the router is an embodiment of some logic. How is the logic
EB> encoded? A java method invocation? I don't have "Router Activity"
EB> correctly represented in the proposal [1]. David, can you please say
EB> what I should put for "Router Activity"?
DS> In ADF a router activity is the control flow equivalent of a switch
DS> statement. It consists of a sequence of EL value expressions and an
DS> outcome value to be generated if the EL evaluates to 'true'. There's
DS> also a default outcome to be generated if none of the expressions
DS> evaluate to 'true'. In theory the same thing can be done with a single
DS> Java method call but we found in some cases developers preferred being
DS> able to use metadata instead of code, especially if IDE support is
DS> available for generating the metadata.
Thanks, I've updated the proposal.
Ed
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