I am in the process of converting a legacy system into a Spring JavaEE application and have gotten stuck trying to design the install process. Basically when the application starts up, it needs to check whether the database schema exists and other settings and prompt the user to set them step-by-step until everything is setup. (User is assumed to be entirely non technical).
This process doesn't really fit with a Spring MVC style webapp and I think their Webflow might be utter overkill (and only used for the installer). Any thoughts as to decent design pattern or framework to do this?