Re: [Jakarta-commons Wiki] Update of "SCXML/FrequentlyAskedQuestions" by WolfgangFrech

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On 2/6/07, Apache Wiki <[email protected]> wrote:
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> The following page has been changed by WolfgangFrech:
> http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/SCXML/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
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> The comment on the change is:
> Deleted previous addition. Sorry, does not work.  Still looking for a way.
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>   However, this has been implemented in trunk, so with the next release of Commons SCXML the SCXMLExecutor instances will be Serializable. Listeners and other associated user-supplied bits are expected to be Serializable.
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> - ==== How do I specify the initial substate when extracting a state descending from a <parallel> element into an external file? ====
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> - Use the initialstate attribute of the scxml element in the external file, and delete the initial pseudostate element with the transition to the initial substate.
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> - Example definition before extraction:
> - {{{
> - ...
> - <parallel>
> -   <state id="a">
> -   <initial>
> -     <transition target="a.initial"/>
> -   </initial>
> -   <state id="a.initial>
> -   ...
> - }}}
> -
> - Example definition after extraction:
> - {{{
> - ...
> - <parallel>
> -   <state id="a" src="a.scxml">
> - }}}
> -
> - Extracted definition:
> - {{{
> - ...
> - <scxml
> -  ...
> -  initialstate="a.initial">
> -   <state id="a">
> -     <state id="a.initial">
> -     ...
<snip/>

where a.scxml is:

<scxml ... initialstate="a.initial">
    <state id="a.initial">
...

and any <onentry> and <onexit> from the original state with id "a"
will have to be assimilated into the initial and final state(s) in
a.scxml.

-Rahul


> - }}}
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> - Ellipsis ... marks omitted elements or attributes.
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> - Reason for this entry: I found it a bit confusing that there are two ways to express "initiality" of a (sub-)state, one by declaring initialstate, one by adding an operation, that is an unconditional initial transition.  This is even more confusing during the "extract" refactoring, because I had to switch from the operational to the declarative method.
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