Application Flow for the Message System

Any Web application is constructed using a certain procedural flow, which assumes the user of the application is going to move through the application in a certain fashion. With larger Web sites, a great deal of consideration is applied to this process, creating large wireframe diagrams that detail the flow of the system.

The message system, though not as complex as some Web sites, does contain a number of pages that you would expect on a Web site: a login page, a main menu, a search page, a message listing page, a message view page, and a message input/update page. Taken together, these pages comprise the message system Web site.

But our Web site is not just static HTML pages; it includes JavaBeans code ...

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