Step-by-step introduction to Spring Web Flow: A beginners guide to a Spring web framework Spring Web Flow (SWF) is an emerging module of The Spring Framework. The module is part of Spring’s web ...

In Spring Web Flow, a Web flow (or flow) is composed of a set of states. A state is a point in the flow where something happens: for instance, showing a view or executing an action.

Spring Web Flow gives you new ways of developing stateful web applications by introducing various kinds of scopes for the stateful data; request, flash, flow and conversation.

“Spring Web Flow is an important addition to the Spring family of products,” said Rod Johnson, CEO of Interface21 and founder of the Spring Framework, in a statement released by Interface21.