CHAPTER 7

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Spring Web Flow

As time went by, and more and more services could remotely use web applications, the web applications became more complex—and designing and implementing them became a cumbersome process. Most applications imply creating objects and passing them through several states, or creating objects depending on each other. Spring Web Flow (SWF) is a component of the Spring Framework’s web stack that was created to help develop complex applications by reducing the difficulty in development.

The Spring Web Flow complements the @Controller model and provides the infrastructure needed to build complex web applications that support ...

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