Spring WebFlow Editor

The WebFlow Editor aims to be a useful tool in editing and validating Spring WebFlow configuration files. The WebFlow support will be released as part of Release 2.0. If you are looking for some documentation about the Editor visit WebFlowEditorUsage.

Preview Release

The second public preview has been released to the developer update site. Please refer to the ChangeLog for more details. For a list of WebFlowEditor related bugs refer to report:9.

Features

• Support for Spring WebFlow Preview Release 3 - 100%
• Full featured graphical editor for Spring WebFlow Xml configurations files.
  • Drag'n'Drop editing - 100%
  • Validation during edit - 100%
  • Print and Export (jpg and bmp) functionality - 100%
  • Automated layouting of Spring WebFlow config file including connection routing - 100%
  • Side-by-side editing of the same configuration file in your favorite Xml Editor Plugin and in the WebFlow Editor - 100%
• Spring WebFlow Xml Validator
  • Implementation of validator which contributes to the extension point introduced by core plugin - 100%
  • Implementation of the validation rules which are described in detail on WebFlowValidator - 100%
• Integration with Spring IDE BeansView and BeansGraph
  • BeansConfigSet can be associated with a WebFlow ConfigSet? for validation of the flow - 100%
  • Navigation into the BeansGraph / BeansView for Actions, AttributeMapper? Spring Beans and ConfigSets? - 100%
• Eclipse Spring IDE Perspective - 0% this feature has been postponed in agreement with Torsten
• Support for Eclipse 3.1 - 40%
• Support for GEF 3.1 - 0%

I will use this page to document the progress of the development and to encourage everybody to post a feature request to the bottom of the page or file a ticket.

Here are some updated screenshots of the PR2 version of the editor.

Feature Requests

Feel free to add your requests

• Where is the url for downloading the WebFlowEditor? (preview versions are available from the development update site http://springide.org/updatesite_dev/) (there's currently no version of the WebFlowEditor available)

• The Spring Webflow team is about to release RCs with pretty stable APIs. Are there any plans for a revised editor? (no, currently we have no spare time left to work on the WebFlowEditor)