JBoss Seam Framework

JBoss Seam(A Framework for Java EE 5) - Introduction

JBoss Seam is a powerful new application framework for building next generation Web 2.0 applications by unifying and integrating technologies such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), Java Server Faces (JSF), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB3), Java Portlets and Business Process Management (BPM).

Seam has been designed from the ground up to eliminate complexity at the architecture and the API level. It enables developers to assemble complex web applications with simple annotated Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs), componentized UI widgets and very little XML. The simplicity of Seam 1.0 will enable easy integration with the JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Java Business Integration (JBI) in the future.

The first application framework for EJB 3.0

EJB 3.0 has changed the notion of EJB components as coarse-grained, heavy-weight objects to EJBs as lightweight POJOs with fine-grained annotations. In Seam, any class may be an EJB - Seam eliminates the distinction between presentation tier components and business logic components and brings a uniform component model to the EE platform.

The easy way to do AJAX

Seam 1.1 integrates open source JSF-based AJAX solutions like ICEfaces and Ajax4JSF with Seam's unique state and concurrency management engine. You can add AJAX to your applications with ease, without the need to learn JavaScript, and you will be protected from potential bugs and performance problems associated with the switch to AJAX.

Seam Architecture