Conversation id - business key - howto

[bsmithjj]

Hello,

I was reading Gavin's blog and saw this:

Also new in this release is ... and support for conversation propagation via a "business key" (ie. instead of seeing conversationId=3 in your URL, you would see orderId=45656).

Looking through the documentation on Conversations, I see this sample:

@Begin(id="#{myConversationIdGenerator.nextId}")
public void editHotel() { ... }

I was wondering (because I don't see something obvious in the Javadocs, is there an interface, say, ConversationIdGenerator, that one can implement and register in components.xml as the conversation id generator for a Seam application?

Thanks

PS - the documentation for the Seam JSF controls section is outstanding now - great job!

[gavin.king]

Unfortunately we forgot to document that. What it actually looks like is:

<conversation name="ProcessOrder"
 parameter-name="orderId"
 parameter-value="#{order.id}"/>

<page view-id="/processOrder.xhtml" conversation="ProcessOrder"/>

Try it out and let us know what you think!

[gavin.king]

And thank Shane for the improvements to the docs for controls. I had not noticed it myself until just now :)