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| <title>Commons SCXML Usecases - Shale dialogs</title> |
| <author email="dev@commons.apache.org">Commons Documentation Team</author> |
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| <body> |
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| <section name="SCXML documents to describe Shale dialogs"> |
| |
| <p><a href="http://shale.apache.org/">Shale</a> is |
| "<i>a modern web application framework, fundamentaly |
| based on JavaServer Faces</i>". The Shale Framework includes a Dialog |
| Manager, to describe "conversations" or "dialogs" |
| (involving multiple views) with the user. Such a dialog is described |
| using a state-machine like declarative notation defined by the Shale |
| Framework. An alternative is using SCXML to describe the Shale dialogs |
| by introducing a <code>DialogNavigationHandler</code> that uses the |
| Commons SCXML engine. |
| </p> |
| |
| <subsection name="Motivation"> |
| <ul> |
| <li>SCXML semantics support parallelism, allowing multiple dialogs |
| to execute at the same time (a.k.a regions), and interact with each |
| other. This will be useful as Shale Dialog Managers evolve.</li> |
| <li>The Commons SCXML implementation allows for registering listeners |
| that get notified as the state machine executes (onentry, onexit, |
| ontransition).</li> |
| <li>Those developing multi-channel applications, or using frameworks |
| that use SCXML for the controller bits in other contexts (e.g. |
| RDC framework), may be inclined towards SCXML-based authoring for Shale |
| dialogs.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </subsection> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="Details"> |
| |
| <p>Please refer to the <a href="http://shale.apache.org/">Apache Shale website</a> |
| for details. The relevant module is the |
| <a href="http://shale.apache.org/shale-dialog-scxml/">Shale Dialogs (Commons SCXML Implementation)</a> |
| module.</p> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| </body> |
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| </document> |
