Spring Web Flow

I am really having a problem about what to use as an alternative for web flow. I have read that not all functionalities should be handled by web flow. On开发者_开发百科ly those which needs complex xstate management. For those easy stuffs like just login, editing or deleting records what will I use as an alternative for web flow?

Spring Web flow is specifically designed to implement complex page flows. It is an extension of Spring MVC and a tool to specify page navigation rules and manage navigation.

Spring Web flow provides fundamental answers to the following major problems in web application development:

How to specify page navigation rules? How to manage navigation and conversational state? How to ensure modularity and code reuse?

It is also integrated with JSF component model and used mostly for enterprise application development. There are not so many alternatives but but for Vaadin component model you can consider Lexaden Web Flow as possible alternative.

How did you build websites before Web Flow?

My understanding is that if something needs "back" functionality that has state information stored - like a "wizard", for example - Web Flow is the way to go. If you don't have state, I'd expect you'd build those pages as you always have.