Product Highlights

• Define all controller logic for an application task, such as a search process, in one place, instead of scattering that logic across many places.
• Compose flows together to create rich controller modules from simple parts.
• Enforce strict user navigation rules with a natural, object-oriented linear programming model and without coding verbose if/else blocks.
• Have memory you allocate during flow execution automatically clean itself up when execution ends or expires.
• Deploy a flow for execution in a Servlet environment using your base web framework of choice.  Spring Web Flow ships convenient integration with leading web frameworks Struts, Spring MVC, and Java Server Faces.
  
• Change Web frameworks, going from Struts to Spring MVC for example, without changing your flow definitions.
• Change environments all together, going from JUnit test to Portlet for example, without changing your flow definitions.
• Evolve your application's navigation rules on-the-fly at development time without a container restart.
  
• Receive automatic browser button support (back, forward, refresh) with no custom coding.
• Store task data in any of four managed scopes: request, flash, flow, and conversation; each with their own distinct semantics.
  
• Test flows in isolation without the container.  Ensure your application control logic works before you deploy.
• Visualize and edit your flow navigation logic graphically with Spring IDE 2.0.
  

Getting Started

1. Phonebook - the original sample demonstrating most features (including subflows)
2. Sellitem - demonstrates a wizard with conditional transitions, flow execution redirects, custom text field formatting, and continuations
3. Flowlauncher - demonstrates all the possible ways to launch and resume flows
4. Itemlist - demonstrates REST-style URLs and inline flows
5. Shippingrate - demonstrates Spring Web Flow together with Ajax technology
6. NumberGuess - demonstrates stateful beans, evaluate actions, and "single key" flow execution redirects.
7. Birthdate - demonstrates Struts integration
8. Fileupload - demonstrates multipart file upload, set actions, and flash scope
9. Phonebook-Portlet - the phonebook sample in a Portlet environment (notice how the flow definitions do not change)
10. Sellitem-JSF - the sellitem sample in a JSF environment
11. Booking-Faces - a more comprehensive Spring Web Flow + JSF application.
    

• Spring Web Flow 1.0.x is proven software fit for production use.

• Spring Web Flow runs on Java SE 1.3 or greater, and Java EE 1.3 (Servlet 2.3, Portlet 1.0) or greater.  Spring Web Flow runs on all major application server platforms.
  

• Spring 1.2.7 or greater is required for the Spring 1.x series, Spring 2.0 or > is required for the Spring 2.x series.

• Struts Classic (1.2.9), Spring MVC, and JSF integration is shipped out-of-the-box.

• The 1.0 release signifies that public API and XSD backwards compatability will be preserved throughout the 1.x series.

• Spring Web Flow 2.0 is the next major release of the framework, focusing on enhanced integration and ease-of-use.
  

• Spring Web Flow 2.0 final is due out in April of 2008.
  

• Explore the Web Flow team's journey by reviewing previous release announcements.
• 1.0.4
  
• 1.0.3
  
• 1.0.2
  
• 1.0.1
• 1.0
• 1.0 RC4
• 1.0 RC3
• 1.0 RC2
• 1.0 RC1
• 1.0 EA
• PR5

• If you're looking for in-depth and thorough coverage of the entire Spring Web Flow feature set, your best bet is to read Working with Spring Web Flow.
  

• Read Spring Web Flow Tips and Tricks at the Ervacon Spring Web Flow Portal.