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[jpa-spec users] Re: Faces Flow Definition

From: Josh Juneau <juneau001_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:28:06 -0500

Hi Linda,

Indeed, a case of having too many tabs open. Sorry for posting to the incorrect group.

Keep up the good work on JPA.

Best Regards

Josh Juneau
http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com
https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866

On May 13, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Linda DeMichiel <linda.demichiel_at_oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I think you meant to send this to the JSF users group.
>
> regards,
>
> -Linda
>
>
>
> On 5/13/2013 12:10 PM, juneau001_at_gmail.com wrote:
>> I have been following the JSF 2.2 specification closely, nice work. I
>> have a question regarding the final implementation of Faces Flow. It
>> seems that the flow definition may be added to the faces-config.xml
>> file, within the<flow-definition> elements as follows:
>>
>> <flow-definition id="exampleFlow">
>> ....
>> </flow-definition>
>>
>> This works well under the current builds. However, as mentioned in
>> some previous articles and within the spec itself, the flow definition
>> can also reside within a file that is named
>> /WEB-INF/<flowName>-flow.xml OR /<flowName>/<flowName>-flow.xml, where
>> <flowName> is the name of the flow. When using this technique, does
>> the flow definition XML file still follow the following format under
>> the final release of the specification?
>> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
>> <!DOCTYPE html>
>> <html
>> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>> xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"
>> xmlns:f="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/core"
>> xmlns:j="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/flow">
>> <f:metadata>
>> <j:faces-flow-definition>
>> <j:flow-return id="returnFromB">
>> ....
>>
>> </j:faces-flow-definition>
>> </f:metadata>
>>
>> If so, I am unable to get my examples working when specifying a flow
>> definition within an XML file named after the flow, such as
>> exampleFlow2-flow.xml. Also, the latest builds of Netbeans 7.3 for EE
>> 7 do not seem to recognize the http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/flow URI.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help. I am trying to document the proper
>> usage of the faces flow feature and I want to ensure that I am not
>> incorrect.
>>
>> Best