We've released Seam 2.0.0 GA to the world. (downloads and docs for the impatient) Seam 2 is a big release. We'll be talking a lot about the new features over the coming days and weeks. To get you started, I wrote up my view the top 10 things you should know about Seam 2.... more »

I've just installed Fedora 8 on my ThinkPad X60, and as it comes with packages for Iced Tea (Red Hat's version of OpenJDK), I thought I would take the Seam Booking Example out for a spin.... more »

Seam 2.0 was released this morning, after 8 months in development! Aside from new features, I think the most important thing about the new release is simply that the codebase is much cleaner. The migration to JSF 1.2 allowed us to solve many problems and remove quite a few hacks. We also repackaged built-in components according to a much more logical schema. ... more »

I'm happy to announce that we've just released Seam 2.0.0.CR3. (download it) As you can see from the release notes, we've been rather busy the last few weeks. Most of the changes since CR2 are documentation and test related, but we've also been busy fixing bugs, upgrading dependencies and making sure that JBossTools and Seam 2.0 work together.... more »

One of the most common forum questions is How do I make Seam call an action method at startup?. The easiest way is to observe the org.jboss.seam.postInitialize event (which occurs right after Seam finishes initializing): ... more »

Ales Justin and Mark Newton are going to present the new JBoss application server core and kernel on Thursday this week, at a meeting of the JBoss special interest group. See you there.... more »

Last nights build of JBoss Tools now has Seam 2 support in its project creation wizards and the artifact wizards (New Seam Action, Form, etc.)... more »

In a previous post, I discussed how to setup a Maven project for your Seam WAR application. However, most Seam developers are probably working on applications with EJB3 components to fully take advantage of the service infrastructure of the JBoss AS container. So, to complete this series, I setup a maven project for Seam EAR [...]... more »

Pete Muir recently posted that Seam 2.0 will support Maven integration. It is perfect timing for me since I have just started to use Maven in my new projects. So, I went through the exercise to setup simple Seam web projects in Maven. It is really quite easy. The project builds a single WAR for [...]... more »

Those of you who keep up with Seam CVS will have noticed a lot of changes recently to the build system. I'm going to give a brief tour of them here, and discuss how they affect you when you use Seam.... more »