JBoss(R) Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java(TM) EE

A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0137129394 ISBN-13: 9780137129393

 

 

Discover JBoss Seam: the Unified Framework for Simpler, More Powerful Web Development

 

JBoss Seam integrates EJB 3.0 and JSF components under a unified framework that simplifies and accelerates Java EE web development. Now, JBoss Seam?s project leader and technology evangelist take you inside this powerful new technology, showing exactly how to put it to work. 

 

Michael Yuan and Thomas Heute show how JBoss Seam enables you to create web applications that would have been difficult or impossible with previous Java frameworks. Through hands-on examples and a complete case study application, you?ll learn how to leverage JBoss Seam?s breakthrough state management capabilities; integrate business processes and rules; use AJAX with Seam; and deploy your application into production, one step at a time. Coverage includes

 

How JBoss Seam builds on?and goes beyond?the Java EE platform

? Using the ?Stateful Framework?: conversations, workspaces, concurrent conversations, and transactions

? Integrating the web and data components: validation, clickable data tables, and bookmarkable web pages

? Creating AJAX and custom UI components, enabling AJAX for existing JSF components, and JavaScript integration via Seam Remoting

? Managing business processes, defining stateful pageflows, and implementing rule-based security

? Testing and optimizing JBoss Seam applications

? Deploying in diverse environments: with Tomcat, with production databases, in clusters, without EJB 3, and more

 

* Download source code for this book?s case study application at http://michaelyuan.com/seam/.

 

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About This Book

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

 

Part I: Getting Started

Chapter 1: What Is Seam?

Chapter 2: Seam Hello World

Chapter 3: Recommended JSF Enhancements

Chapter 4: Rapid Application Development Tools

Part II: Stateful Applications Made Easy

Chapter 5: An Introduction to Stateful Framework

Chapter 6: A Simple Stateful Application

Chapter 7: Conversations

Chapter 8: Workspaces and Concurrent Conversations

Chapter 9: Transactions

Part III: Integrating Web and Data Components

Chapter 10: Validate Input Data

Chapter 11: Clickable Data Tables

Chapter 12: Bookmarkable Web Pages

Chapter 13: The Seam CRUD Application Framework

Chapter 14: Failing Gracefully

Part IV: AJAX Support

Chapter 15: Custom and AJAX UI Components

Chapter 16: Enabling AJAX for Existing Components

Chapter 17: Direct JavaScript Integration

Part V: Business Processes and Rules

Chapter 18: Managing Business Processes

Chapter 19: Stateful Pageflows

Chapter 20: Rule-Based Security Framework

Part VI: Testing Seam Applications

Chapter 21: Unit Testing

Chapter 22: Integration Testing

Part VII: Production Deployment

Chapter 23: Java EE 5.0 Deployment

Chapter 24: Seam Without EJB3

Chapter 25: Tomcat Deployment

Chapter 26: Using a Production Database

Chapter 27: Performance Tuning and Clustering

 

Appendix A: Installing and Deploying JBoss AS

Appendix B: Using Example Applications as Templates

Index

 

User review
good introduction for beginners but not enough for intermediate seam developers
good introduction to jboss seam using a hello world example. this book is perfect for somebody who is a beginner to jboss seam.

On the other hand, for somebody who has already has some experience with jboss seam, this book might not be enough.

User review
Is the future!
For that ones who like to be on cut of the edge, should read it.
Easy to understand and read. Seam is leaving the future choice to be one real and excellent choice for present integrating JSF and EJB 3.x and this book has filled all that I could expect about learn JBoss Seam.

User review
Very good book
Very good book. It gives good knowledge about how to write
applications in this framework. Many working examples are also
appreciated.

In the beginning authors explain what is Seam, and it is understood,
as Seam is much different than any other framework with similar
functionality. Seam is not meant for using it as `white box`. It is
rather `black box`, designed for just using it, without knowing inside
details. Because of this debugging Seam code is tedious task, and in
fact unnecessary. There is chapter in the book explaining how to use
debugging mechanism built in Seam, so called `debug pages`. One can
check session state, stacktrace or JSF components tree. Very helpful
for anyone writing web applications in this framework.

There is also chapter about business processes and business rules.
Yes, this is also built in Seam. As an example in the book is ticket
system. User logs in, lists tasks and assigns them to herself.
Developer does not need to care about storing users tasks in database,
it is enough to set component scope to BUSINESS_PROCESS. This is very
interesting functionality, and although it is explained quite well in
the book, I would like it to be explained even better.

There is good testing support in Seam and this is also well described
in the book. Seam provides tools to do in tests what is normally done
by container, like dependency injection, database and transactions
mocking etc.

Another chapter is about running Seam applications on non-ejb3
containers (like Tomcat).

The book covers many topics, not only about Seam itself, but also
about how to use Seam, test, how to deploy applications on non-seam
container, how to connect to another than default database etc. The
book is targeted for real users, for people working with the
framework.

What I miss is more insight into how Seam internally works. Such
knowledge is not necessary to write working apps, but I just like to
know such things.

Some knowledge about JSF and EJB3 is also very useful when reading
this book. I would like some of this stuff explained, but on the other
hand it is book about Seam not about EJB3/JSF.

I think reading this book is very good for someone who wants to write
applications in Seam, even advanced ones. Seam is interesting
technology, much different than pure JSF+EJB3, and it's worth
learning, even for someone not using it at work, just to see new
possibilities.

User review
Too short
Compared to other computer books this book is to shallow and does not cover the depths of Seam. I would like a more continous example throughout the book instead of a collection of small, rather trivial examples.

User review
Very good introduction to Seam and what WebApp dev should be!
It's not a cookbook with ready made recipes. It gives a shallow but complete overview of the Seam framework features. That is important because if you don't know it exists you will never try to use it. Examples: XHTML validation tags for Hibernate, conversation state, and much more.

It's a must read to get a good start with Seam and to learn what WebApp development should have been from the beginning.