Spring Webflow + Spring MVC: Action Bean in Java Annotation - spring

Question

I'm using Spring MVC + Spring Webflow 2.
I would like to define a #Bean for an action-state, but i don't know how to do this in Java Annotation, as i get this error:
Method call: Method execute() cannot be found on
com.myapp.action.GaraAgenziaAction type
here an example of what i want to do: spring-webflow-no-actions-were-executed
My Bean:
import org.springframework.webflow.execution.Action;
import org.springframework.webflow.execution.Event;
import org.springframework.webflow.execution.RequestContext;
public class GaraAgenziaAction implements Action {
#Override
public Event execute(RequestContext rc) throws Exception {
return new Event(this, "success");
}
}
Flow XML:
<transition on="fail" to="gara-agenzie"/>
<transition on="success" to="gara-conferma"/>
My webAppConfig:
#Bean
public Action GaraAgenziaAction()
{
GaraAgenziaAction garaAgenziaAction = new GaraAgenziaAction();
return garaAgenziaAction;
}
Thank you very much
UPDATE resolved thanks to #Prasad suggestions:
My Bean (added #Component):
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import org.springframework.webflow.execution.Action;
import org.springframework.webflow.execution.Event;
import org.springframework.webflow.execution.RequestContext;
#Component
public class GaraAgenziaAction implements Action {
#Override
public Event execute(RequestContext rc) throws Exception {
return new Event(this, "success");
}
}
My webAppConfig (changed name of the bean with lowercase):
#Bean
public Action garaAgenziaAction()
{
GaraAgenziaAction beanAction = new GaraAgenziaAction();
return beanAction;
}
Flow XMl configuration (changed bean name to lowercase and pass flowRequestContext as parameter):
<action-state id="action-agenzie">
<evaluate expression="garaAgenziaAction.execute(flowRequestContext)"></evaluate>
<transition on="fail" to="gara-agenzie"/>
<transition on="success" to="gara-conferma"/>
</action-state>
Now it's working fine!

Answer 1

Define the action class in your servlet xml file as:
<!--Class which handles the flow related actions-->
<bean id="garaAgenziaAction" class=" com.myapp.action.GaraAgenziaAction">
</bean>
or annotate it with Component as:
#Component
public class GaraAgenziaAction implements Action{
#Override
public Event execute(RequestContext rc) throws Exception {
return new Event(this, "success");
}
}
In your flow xml access it as:
<action-state id="action-agenzie">
<evaluate expression="garaAgenziaAction.execute(flowRequestContext)"></evaluate>
<transition on="fail" to="gara-agenzie"/>
<transition on="success" to="gara-conferma"/>
</action-state>
For configuration details you can find it in the answer in this link.