Re: Feedback on Java Code Generator

And just because I'm using it:
http://grails.codehaus.org/WebFlow

Grails WebFlow if anyone is interested...

On Jan 9, 2008 9:30 AM, Chris Bredesen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tim Jowers wrote:
> > Chris, what I'm thinking about is the page-flow logic as a workflow
> > and the workflow as a set-population. The sets are the relations and
> > the overall set of sets for the workflow is all related tables
> > (relations). Thus the workflow could be generated by knowing the
> > relationships of the relations. The user would then only have to
> > decide the ordering of the screen ( e.g. start with the leaf nodes or
> > start with the tables having FK's). That's my thought process right now.
>
> This is certainly an interesting prospect and I don't know if anyone's
> doing it currently.  Seam uses jBPM to control page flow (optionally I
> believe) so it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine some simple declarative
> way to choose which entities comprise a page flow and allow the system
> to lay out what makes sense (and also understand how to handle
> exceptions).  Last time I looked at Rails it had some rudimentary
> association handling but I don't believe it created any flows (that was
> probably 1-2 years ago though).
>
> If you're interested in continuing this discussion, I'd urge you to stop
> by the Seam user forum [1] -- propose this idea and see what comes
> back.  The developers are very active there and you might get some good
> info.
>
> Best,
>
> Chris
>
>
> [1] http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewforum&f=231
>
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