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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/. www.prenhallprofessional.com www.jboss.com About This Book xv About the Authors xvi Acknowledgments xvii Part I: Getting Started 1 Chapter 1: What Is Seam? 3 Chapter 2: Seam Hello World 11 Chapter 3: Recommended JSF Enhancements 31 Chapter 4: Rapid Application Development Tools 55 Part II: Stateful Applications Made Easy 75 Chapter 5: An Introduction to Stateful Framework 77 Chapter 6: A Simple Stateful Application 87 Chapter 7: Conversations 99 Chapter 8: Workspaces and Concurrent Conversations 117 Chapter 9: Transactions 127 Part III: Integrating Web and Data Components 135 Chapter 10: Validate Input Data 137 Chapter 11: Clickable Data Tables 149 Chapter 12: Bookmarkable Web Pages 157 Chapter 13: The Seam CRUD Application Framework 169 Chapter 14: Failing Gracefully 183 Part IV: AJAX Support 195 Chapter 15: Custom and AJAX UI Components 197 Chapter 16: Enabling AJAX for Existing Components 211 Chapter 17: Direct JavaScript Integration 225 Part V: Business Processes and Rules 243 Chapter 18: Managing Business Processes 245 Chapter 19: Stateful Pageflows 267 Chapter 20: Rule-Based Security Framework 277 Part VI: Testing Seam Applications 289 Chapter 21: Unit Testing 291 Chapter 22: Integration Testing 303 Part VII: Production Deployment 311 Chapter 23: Java EE 5.0 Deployment 313 Chapter 24: Seam Without EJB3 319 Chapter 25: Tomcat Deployment 333 Chapter 26: Using a Production Database 345 Chapter 27: Performance Tuning and Clustering 351 Appendix A: Installing and Deploying JBoss AS 365 Appendix B: Using Example Applications as Templates 371 Index 387 | 
