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Earlier in the week I published a post on the Genuitec blog that compares Spring Web Flow editors.

All Spring Web Flow Editors are not created equal.  The purpose of this post is to outline some of the key differences between the Spring Web Flow Editors found in SpringIDE and MyEclipse for Spring.  I’ve also included some screenshots to further illustrate how working with a Flow Editor that is intuitive and feature-rich can make all the difference when developing applications with Spring Web Flow.

This morning I found a very interesting blog post at Skill Guru called "Is Spring Web Flow Right for Me ?".  It's a very good introduction to Spring Web FLow, and I left the following comment related to the co-existence of Spring Web Flow with Spring MVC and the learning curve of Spring Web Flow.

I really like the “controlled navigations” explanation of SWF. I have worked with a dozens of SWF projects, and what I have found is that a typical web application can have portions that need to “free browsing” and other parts need “controlled navigation” (i.e. registration, checkout, business processes). Fortunately SWF co-exists very nicely with Spring MVC, so you can use MVC for the free browsing portions of the application, and SWF for the controlled navigation portions. Unfortunately I think one of the biggest deterrents to SWF is the learning curve. While it’s not a major shift in approach (compared to MVC), it does require thinking about the application flow a little bit more in the beginning and understanding the mechanics of SWF. I’ve chatted with a lot of Spring development shops (small and large), and getting started seems to be the hardest part. This was the major motivation for adding Spring Web Flow scaffolding to MyEclipse for Spring, so that you can generate ready-to-run contextual examples using your own domain model (either POJO’s or databases).

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While I was on the east coast of Florida for the holidays, I took a bunch of pictures of the Ponce Inlet Light House.  I used all the pictures to create a Photosynth.

This year for father's day my wife bought me the Flip.  While everything is going HD these days. the personal HD cameras are a bit too expensive right now.  I had decided to stick with the video functions of my point-and-shoot camera.  I figured it would get me by for a while until the HD cameras drop in price a bit more.  However my wife had other plans, and I'm very happy for it.  With the forthcoming birth of our first child, she thought the event warranted something a little better.  So she bought me the Flip.  It's not an HD camera, but it's a small (about the size of a cigarette box) and super easy to use video camera that produces remarkably good video quality.

So I had to take the Flip for a test-drive.  As you can see, I mean that literally.  I recorded various video clips that I strung together into a little video using Windows Movie Maker.   The results have been uploaded to YouTube.  The results in YouTube aren't representative of the real video quality of the Flip, but you'll get the general idea.

Hey Bucs fans, here's a way for you to load the Bucs 2008 schedule into Microsoft Outlook.