swf-booking-jsf under ICEfaces has been improved by catching Spring resource requests in MainServlet, however this does not actually return the requested resource. For that, we need to implement a wrapper for the Spring resource dispatcher or we need to determine how to allow ICEfaces to recover from Spring writing directly to the outputStream when resources are requested during the JSF lifecycle. This is likely the source of the NullPointerException during flush().

Comments on the Spring forum requesting integration:

http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=51233

Initial work on the integration allows delegation of the JSF lifecycle to the Spring Web Flow Flow Executor. To allow integration with pages not handled by SWF, only those URLs with no "." after the last "/" are delegated, otherwise JSF handles the request directly. The idea is that this should detect those pages that are "extension mapped". (Clearly a better means of detecting which requests should be handled by Spring Web Flow is needed.)

The booking-faces application has been partially ported and checked in. The flow up to "Book Hotel" is functional; the other pages have not been ported (for instance sf: components currently have interoperability problems due to the use of Dojo and the modification of the form submission URL).

Initial support is checked in; will create additional cases for specific issues.

See http://jira.springframework.org/browse/SWF-660

This appears to fully integrate webflow and icefaces at the taglib level. It supports multiple tags on a single page, multiple tabs or otherwise... I wasn't able to get the jsf statemanagement to work since all the components did not appear to serialize properly. In the interim i'm just storing state in session. Perhaps you guys can address this. I think it makes icefaces-webflow integration a lot less problematic as versions change since it becomes isolated at the component level.

Is the idea to run a webflow within a panel (such as for a wizard)? There have definitely been requests for a feature like that.

yes.. but in fact it can run standalone I think. Although I haven't tried It doesn't seem to need to be in a panel. If you want to establish communication outside the normal support channel (we do have icefaces support at EDS/BCBSMA) feel free to contact me.

Recent changes for partialSubmit and UIXhtmlComponent state saving improve the functionality of swf-booking-icefaces. A significant area that appears to remain is support for "anonymous" flows. For instance, the login.xhtml page is not registered as a flow, yet redirection to flows/login (and flows/processLogin) is expected to resolve.