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Seam 2.x Web Development

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Seam 2.x Web Development

Overview of this book

The Seam framework from JBoss allows developers to use JSF, Facelets, EJB, and JPA to write conversational web applications. But you will first have to learn how these standard technologies are integrated using Seam and how they can be built upon using additional Seam components. If you need to build a Java web application fast, but don't have time to learn all these complex features, then this book is for you. The book provides a practical approach to developing Seam applications highlighting good development practices. It provides a complete walk through to develop Web applications using Seam, Facelets, and RichFaces and explains how to deploy them to the JBoss Application Server. You can start using key aspects of the Seam framework immediately because this book builds on them chapter by chapter, finally ending with details of enterprise functionality such as PDF report generation and event frameworks. First, the book introduces you to the fundamentals of Seam applications, describing topics such as Injection, Outjection and Bijection. You will understand the Facelets framework, AJAX, database persistence, and advanced Seam concepts through the many examples in the book. The book takes a practical approach throughout to describing the technologies and tools involved. You will add functionality to Seam applications after you learn how to use the Seam Generator RAD tools and how to customize and fully test application functionality. Hints and tips are provided along the way of how to use Seam and the JBoss Application Server.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Seam 2.x Web Development
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface

SeamGen


In the previous section, we introduced Facelets, the recommended view technology for Seam applications. So far, all of our applications have been written manually, without any kind of computer assistance. We've even had to write the ant scripts manually. This can be time consuming, particularly in large projects. Fortunately, the Seam Framework is supplied with a command line tool called SeamGen that can automatically generate projects, even ones including Eclipse and NetBeans project files, for us.

SeamGen is an ant script that asks the developers questions about the project they wish to develop, and then, based upon the responses to those questions, builds project templates that can be managed using either Ant, NetBeans, or Eclipse.

The SeamGen application is invoked by executing the <SEAM_HOME>/seam.bat command in Windows, or the <SEAM_HOME>/seam command on Linux or Mac.

Note

If you are running SeamGen on Linux/Mac, you may have to make the Seam application executable...