How to end a conversation with free form navigation

[ilya78]

The application has a main menu with various links. One of them starts a wizard with several pages, that I have implemented as a conversation(started with @Begin).
While the wizard is active, the main menu should be available.

So I have folowing problems:

1) If conversation started and in the middle of the conversation, the user clicks a button from the link, the conversation is not propagated (which is ok), but it still active(memory leak). And if then the user tries to start another conversation an exception occurs.
How can I end the conversation? by placing end-conversation on every single non wizard page that can be accessed from wizard screens? this sounds crazy to me.

2) If conversation started and while in the middle of the conversation the user presses back button many times (this can end to any page on the website) - how to I close the conversation? placing end-conversation on every page on the site sounds again crazy :)

Thanks

[ilya78]

a typo:

"ilya78" wrote:

1) If conversation started and in the middle of the conversation, the user clicks a button from the link

i meant: ... a button from the menu

[matt.drees]

"ilya78" wrote:
but it still active(memory leak)

It's not really a memory leak. The conversation will timeout at some point, and everything will get garbage collected fine. Like you mentioned, back-buttoning makes it impossible to guarantee that a conversation won't be left hanging.

[ilya78]

I am thinking if it is a good idea to end the conversation on every link that is not part of the conversation wizard (like menu links , etc). Like

<h:outputLink....>
<s:conversationPropagation type="end"/>
</h:outputLink>

[ilya78]

"ilya78" wrote:

<h:outputLink....>
<s:conversationPropagation type="end"/>
</h:outputLink>

h:commandLink is correct

[matt.drees]

Yeah, probably. Depends if you want them to be able to back-button into the conversation they were working on.

[pmuir]

As Matt says, set a sensible conversation timeout.