Getting started with Spring Web Flow 2.0

Spring Web Flow 2.0 is an extension of Spring Web MVC, which, if roughly, is equivalent to a special controller in spring Web MVC, which can be controller through XML files, so you need to configure Spring Web MVC before using Spring Web Flow 2.0, as follows:

Create a directory structure for a WEB application

Import a related class library under/web-inf/lib

Declare dispatcherservlet in the WEB application Deployment Descriptor file Web.xml and specify the configuration file

Add Dispatcherservlet Mappings

Creating Web-application-config.xml Files

Creating Webmvc-config.xml Files

Create index.jsp

Create a directory structure for a WEB application

This example applies the directory structure that will be generated by default in the Eclipse Dynamic Web Project Wizard, adding Config and flows subdirectories in the Web-inf directory, where the Config subdirectory is used to store various profiles, flows the subdirectories The definition file for Spring Web flow. The final catalog is shown in Figure 3:

Figure 2 Directory structure