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Spring Webflow Saves the Day

Thursday, the morning after our Shale jerry-rig marathon, I discovered that, even after hard-coding the end-state viewId, the dialog context for the parent dialog, listManager, was nullified on returning to the listsManager.xhtml page.
It was a dark hour, but we soon found a new shining software implementation to help us. Spring-Webflow rose to the occasion! It [...]

Navigation with Shale

As I edited the code to remove RichFaces from our Application, a simple problem arose and led to two days worth of work. This is not unusual, and we are actually quite happy about the changes we have made, since they ought to make the application run far better in the future.
The problem was as [...]

To A4J or Not to A4J?

For the past two weeks or so I have been frenetically learning Ajax for Java and RichFaces. The available components shine on the view, adding speed, simplicity, and functionality to our application.
Unfortunately, the fact that two weeks have passed since I began work on the core page of the application signals that there are problems. [...]