Seam 2.0 works with Netbeans 6.0 M10 and the Netbeans Seam plugin. I've spent some time preparing an application based upon some of the examples given in the Seam 2.0 documentation.... more »

I've come up with some simple steps for migrating a JBoss SEAM application from Glassfish V1 to Glassfish V2. Actually, you can configure all SEAM applications which you plan on deploying to Glassfish in this manner, and they will be deployable on either V1 or V2.... more »

The preview chapters will soon be released but you can get a sneak peak by accessing the code examples here. Feel free to download the examples and try them out! Each example project included in the source bundle is a variant of the Seam Hotel Booking example. The booking project demonstrates the use of natural conversations and navigation-based conversation management while the nestedbooking project demonstrates the use of nested conversations.... more »

JBoss 4.2.1.GA comes with JSF 1.2 RI (Reference Implementation) and by default registers JBossJSFConfigureListener class as a context listener for any web app you deploy. To see how this is done, look at the web.xml file under \ server\ default\ deploy\ jboss-web.deployer\ conf\ directory. The above web.xml is common to all web applications you deploy which means that JBossJSFConfigureListener gets a chance to participate in your web application lifecycle events, such as when the context is initialized and when the context is destroyed.... more »

The much anticipated Second Edition of JBoss(R) Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java(TM) EE (Prentice Hall JBoss) is coming soon. Michael Yuan and myself have teamed up to develop the content for the upcoming Second Edition which will cover the ins and outs of Seam 2, and I don’t just mean bijection... more »

This is a step-by-step tutorial. I made this Tutorial, because I was not happy with the four project folders generated by JBoss Tools 2.0.0 when I select a new Seam EAR project. The work is a bit confusing. If I create a new Seam WAR project I only get two projects (one of them is a test project). I had a lot of trouble with the WAR project. I was not able to not get the EJB3 examples work with it. Never the less the folder structure is different from the Seam-gen generated projects. This tutorial works completely without JBoss Tool. You can use JBoss Tools anyway, it has nice functions do build a RichFaces JSF page, but keep in mind that new generated projects are difficult to handle, since you have to keep an overview of all four projects and the changes you made in each of them.... more »

JBoss Seam gives you a great build support if you want to go with Ant. But what about Maven 2? There doesn’t seem to be a lot of documentation about it. Here’s how I got it running. First of all you need to create a multi-module project. Maven 2 requires to have a POM for every artifact you want to build. What you need to set up is one project (through a directory) per artifact. The book “Better Builds with Maven” describes this procedure very well. After setting it up you should have something similar to this:... more »

The three part screencast that accompanies this article was recorded during the presentation by Big Lots, Inc. (NYSE: BIG) information technology employees Kunal Bajaj, Mark Hanes, Chris Henson and Keith Naas, at JBoss World 2008. One of the great things about working on software infrastructure is the ubiquity and wide influnce one has due to the nature of the users of infrastructure software. I drive past a Big Lots! store in Apoka, FL regurlarly, so it was with great interest that I attended the JBoss World 2008 case study titled, "Big Lots Store Inventory Management". I wasn't exactly sure what I would learn during this presentation, but it turns out I was to be delighted. Big Lots! has had enormous success with Sun's JSF implementation, Mojarra, and other Java EE technologies in delivering inventory management and other store essential software on time and within budget. ... more »

The Seam Web Framework joins the worlds of JavaServer Faces and EJB 3.0, and JBoss Tools is a suite of Eclipse plugins that make developing Seam applications easy and productive.... more »

As a service to my readers, I have updated all examples in my JBoss Seam book to Seam 2.0.0.GA. Go download the zip file here The example applications are fully tested against JBoss AS 4.2.0 GA. NOTE: To build the examples, you now need to download and unzip Seam 2.0.0.GA first, and then set the build.properties file [...]... more »