I have a java web applicaitonj. using spring web flow. How do I pass values from one flow to another flow
http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow/spring-webflow-2.0.xsd">
<persistence-context />
<var name="editBean" class="jp.co.anicom.domain.User" />
<var name="deleteBean" class="jp.co.anicom.domain.User" />
<var name="authorityBean" class="jp.co.anicom.domain.Authority" />
<on-start>
<set name="flowScope.username" value="requestParameters.username" />
</on-start>
<action-state id="queryAll">
<evaluate expression="employeeAction.GetAuthority(flowScope.username)"
result="authorityBean" />
<transition to="editForm" />
</action-state>
<view-state id="editForm" model="editBean" view="../xhtml/framework/edit">
<transition on="editButton" to="validateAccount" />
<transition on="delete" to="getId" />
<transition on="back" to="editSuccessful" />
</view-state>
<action-state id="validateAccount">
<evaluate expression="employeeAction.GetEmployee(flowScope.username, oldPassword)"
result="editBean" />
<transition to="checkUserAccount" />
</action-state>
<action-state id="getId">
<evaluate expression="employeeAction.GetEmployee(flowScope.username)"
result="deleteBean" />
<transition to="deleteUser" />
</action-state>
<decision-state id="checkUserAccount">
<if test="editBean == null" then="queryAll"
else="confirmPassword" />
</decision-state>
<decision-state id="confirmPassword">
<if test="newPassword.equals(confirmPassword)" then="editUser1"
else="queryAll" />
</decision-state>
<action-state id="editUser1">
<set name="editBean.password" value="newPassword" />
<transition to="editUser2" />
</action-state>
<action-state id="editUser2">
<evaluate
expression="employeeAction.editEmployee(editBean, authorityBean.authority)" />
<transition to="editSuccessful" />
</action-state>
<action-state id="deleteUser">
<evaluate expression="employeeAction.deleteEmployee(deleteBean)" />
<transition to="editSuccessful" />
</action-state>
<end-state id="editSuccessful"
view="externalRedirect:contextRelative:/admin_main.do" commit="true" />
<end-state id="displayError" view="../xhtml/framework/displayError" />
<end-state id="dummy1" view="../xhtml/framework/dummy" />
<global-transitions>
<transition on-exception="java.lang.Exception" to="displayError" />
</global-transitions>
I am having a problem with the edit functionality here. In my edit page I have username, oldpassword, newpassword and confirm password fields. First in validateAccount state I check if the username and oldpassword exists in the database. if it it doesn't exists I forward it to queryall state. If it exists I check if the new password and confirmpassword values are the same.If the same I proceed with the editing. If not I return again to queryAll. QueryAll state gets the authority of the user to populate it in the form upon redisplaying the page. When I leave the password fieldS blank and the first time I click edit button It throws a java.lang.NullPointerException .