I am very happy to announce that we have releases Seam 2.0.0 CR1. If you are impatient, you can get it here.... more »

Yesterday I was in Berlin to present JBoss Seam at the Objekt Forum Nord.... more »

Seam has great i8ln - it provides a built in locale selector which it uses to provide localized message bundles. You can load different message bundles for different pages.... more »

Seam and Drools both got the nod in InfoWorld's Best of Open Source awards. Apparently the judges did not have a category for application frameworks but they were so determined to reward Seam that they decided to hand us the application server category ;-)... more »

InfoWorld recently awarded the Best Open Source Software for the Enterprise (aka the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies).... more »

Joshua Jackson has written "One gap that Seam should fill in," a blog posting detailing JBoss Seam's dependency on Hibernate. He says that Seam should provide abstractions to other JPA providers - especially after JPA 2 is finalized and released.... more »

It's been over a year since I first wrote about Seam and enough has changed over that time to provide a refresh of the entry. Last month JBoss released version 4.2 of its application server, a release JBoss refers to as a "stepping stone from JBoss 4.0 to JBoss 5.0". One notable difference with JBoss 4.2 is that is now uses the JSF Reference Implementation from GlassFish rather than the Apache MyFaces implementation, which makes porting an application between the 2 servers all the more straight-forward.... more »

When Norman Richards first encountered Seam, he was looking for a way to get away from sticky glue code and micro-managing beans in XML. 'What I found was a fundamentally different way to write web applications,' he says. 'I think Seam not only ups the bar for Java web frameworks, but I think it provides a clear counter to those who would argue that Java just can't compete with a more dynamic language like Ruby.'... more »

I am in Atlanta for our internal JBoss ESB / SOA training this week. Burr Sutter and his team are doing a great job conveying our SOA vision -- to mesh and reuse services you already built in your "single silo" applications (e.g., a web store and a warehouse management app can share an "order" object when the user confirms an order. Each application then process and save the order in their own ways.).... more »

Michael Yuan has written "JBoss Seam: A "Deep Integration" Framework" for TheServerSide.com, showing how Seam works to make developers' lives easier when creating applications in Java. The article shows the integration points Seam offers (as well as summarizing what an "integration framework" is in the first place), and shows off Seam's integration with JSF vendors such as RichFaces and IceFaces - in addition to its integration with Javascript itself. Business process modeling, alternate output via iText, and advanced job scheduling are also addressed.... more »