Best practice to manage the path breadcrumbs in Spring without Web flow
I am engaged in a project where I need to show path bread crumbs to the user like
Home (This is linked to home page) >> (page name)
and like
Home >> contacts
and in contacts like
Contacts >> create
Contacts >> edit
etc.
Is there a best practice how to do this in spring without he usage of spring web flow? I am not using spring web flow and simply using the spring MVC.
Answer
I'm not sure why you'd have to do this in Spring if you're not using Spring MVC.
Depending on the site's structure and the URL structure, you might want to parse the URL into something readable.
Another option is to have some sort of push/pop mechanism but since browsers have a back button which does not signal the server this is often a recipe for disaster.