Saturday, January 22, 2005

From Making it Stick comes a pointer to 'Enable backwards navigation through Web applications'. Web frameworks like Struts and JavaServer Faces focus only on forward navigation of Web applications. In this article, Maurizio Albari introduces a framework that improves the backwards navigation of Web applications by keeping a server-side navigation history of visited Web pages and visited named sequences of Web pages, also known as Webflows. With the framework, you can also use the server-side navigation history to automatically clean the HTTP session, thus improving application performance. And the best part is that you can still use your favorite Web framework for forward navigation. 2:07:52 PM