Conversation

[soares]

Hi all,

Please, could somebody explain me how the Conversation scope really works? I didn´t find a good answer for my topics bellow in the documentation, so I´m asking here...

1) When I start a long running conversation, do I need to use JOIN every time I need to call a method to avoid a new conversation and stays in the current?

2) After a new long running conversation starts, every component that I call inside her will be necessary to use JOIN explicity?

3) And inside a web site portal development using conversations in use cases that is necessary, how can I control the start and the end conversation avoiding Seam Debug page? What should be the best practice?

Thanks a lot guys!

[pgmjsd]

1) When I start a long running conversation, do I need to use JOIN every time I need to call a method to avoid a new conversation and stays in the current?

No, you only need to use 'join' if the method should start a conversation if there isn't one already, usually using     <begin-conversation join="true"/> in the '.page.xml' file is a very simple way to do this.

2) After a new long running conversation starts, every component that I call inside her will be necessary to use JOIN explicity?

Not if those components are not supposed to create conversations on their own.

3) And inside a web site portal development using conversations in use cases that is necessary, how can I control the start and the end conversation avoiding Seam Debug page? What should be the best practice?

The long running conversation ID can be propagated from page to page using a URL parameter.   I'm not sure how a portal environment affects this, but that's how it works in a non-portal environment.