Sven Lüppken

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Congratulations! I hope you have a lot of fun with our book!!

Thanks,
Sven
14 years ago

Mourouganandame Arunachalam wrote:

powerful Spring JavaScript library (which is included with Spring Web Flow) to create compelling user interfaces



That sounds interesting... is it something comparable to Dojo? Could you please provide more info on this?



Spring JavaScript is an abstraction layer on top of other toolkits, like Dojo. In fact, Dojo is the only implementation of the API right now and is shipping with Spring Web Flow 2. Using Spring JavaScript, you can decorate your HTML elements using widgets from Dojo, without losing functionality in your web pages if JavaScript is not enabled. If JavaScript is disabled, the HTML form will still work, just without AJAX features (like calendars).

Hope that helps!

Thanks,
Sven
14 years ago
The book covers Spring JavaScript (in chapter 5), shipped with the Spring Web Flow distribution. Spring JavaScript is an abstraction layer for other JavaScript toolkits, which means that, in theory, it can work with more than one JavaScript toolkit. From the reference documentation:

"Spring JS is designed such that an implementation of its API can be built for any of the popular Javascript toolkits. The initial implementation of Spring.js builds on the Dojo
toolkit. " (http://static.springframework.org/spring-webflow/docs/2.0.x/reference/html/ch11s03.html)

In Spring Web Flow 2, support for Dojo is included.

Hope that helps!

Thanks,
Sven
14 years ago
In my opinion our book is different because it does not only explain how to create flows with Spring Web Flow, but also shows the integration with other technologies like JavaServer Faces, EasyMock, Hibernate, Spring Security and, additionally, how to use the powerful Spring JavaScript library (which is included with Spring Web Flow) to create compelling user interfaces. As written in the book, it is not designed to replace the reference documentation, but it includes step-by-step instructions which get you started with Spring Web Flow really quick.

Thanks,
Sven
14 years ago
In my opinion the chapter about testing your flows is fairly extensive...I hope you'll like it as much as I do! It explains how to test your flows, subflows, persistence contexts and also gives a short introduction to EasyMock, which helps you to create mock implementations of your interfaces.

Thanks,
Sven
14 years ago
Thank you all for welcoming us! :-) Looking forward to talking to you about our book!
14 years ago