org.wizard4j.engine
Class FlowchartEngine

java.lang.Object
  org.wizard4j.engine.SessionManager
      org.wizard4j.engine.FlowchartEngine

public class FlowchartEngine
extends SessionManager

The FlowchartEngine can be requested to create either managed or unmanaged FlowchartSessions.

An application using wizard4j will typically contain code similar to the following excerpt.

 WizardValidator validator = WizardFactory.newWizardValidator();
 Flowchart flowchart = validator.validateFlowchart(flowchartSource);
 FlowchartEngine flowchartEngine = WizardFactory.newFlowchartEngine();
 String flowchartSessionId = flowchartEngine.createManagedSession(flowchart);
 FlowchartResponse flowchartResponse = flowchartEngine.start(flowchartSessionId);
 ...
 

Constructor Summary

FlowchartEngine(int sessionTimeout)

Method Summary

java.lang.String	createManagedSession(Flowchart flowchart) Create a managed session.
FlowchartSession	createSession(Flowchart flowchart) Create an unmanaged session, the user is responsible for the lifecycle of the session.

Methods inherited from class org.wizard4j.engine.SessionManager

cancel, getDefaultGroupType, getResult, getSessionTimeout, index, isDefaultAllowMultipleRatesPerRun, isDefaultAllowMultipleSavesPerRun, isDefaultAutomaticSave, isDefaultKeepStateInResponse, isDefaultMaskCancelAction, isDefaultMaskIndexAction, isDefaultMaskNextAction, isDefaultMaskPreviousAction, isDefaultMaskRateAction, isDefaultMaskSaveAction, isDefaultMaskStartAction, isDefaultMaskStateAction, isDefaultResendResponseAtRequestError, isDefaultResendResponseWithErrorAtParameterError, next, previous, rate, save, setActionMask, setAllowMultipleRatesPerRun, setAllowMultipleSavesPerRun, setAutomaticSave, setDefaultAllowMultipleRatesPerRun, setDefaultAllowMultipleSavesPerRun, setDefaultAutomaticSave, setDefaultGroupType, setDefaultKeepStateInResponse, setDefaultMaskCancelAction, setDefaultMaskIndexAction, setDefaultMaskNextAction, setDefaultMaskPreviousAction, setDefaultMaskRateAction, setDefaultMaskSaveAction, setDefaultMaskStartAction, setDefaultMaskStateAction, setDefaultResendResponseAtRequestError, setDefaultResendResponseWithErrorAtParameterError, setFlowchartMonitor, setGroupType, setResendResponseAtRequestError, setResendResponseWithErrorAtParameterError, setStoreStateInResponse, start, state

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FlowchartEngine

public FlowchartEngine(int sessionTimeout)

Parameters:

sessionTimeout -

Method Detail

createSession

public FlowchartSession createSession(Flowchart flowchart)

Create an unmanaged session, the user is responsible for the lifecycle of the session.

Parameters:

flowchart -

Returns:

flowchartSession

createManagedSession

public java.lang.String createManagedSession(Flowchart flowchart)

Create a managed session.

Parameters:

flowchart -

Returns:

sessionId