Java Persistence with Hibernate

17.2. Improving the application with Seam

The web application you've written to search and edit web items can be improved if you add Seam into the mix. You start with basic Seam features:

• Seam makes the JSF backing bean unnecessary. You can bind JSF widget values and actions directly to EJB stateful and stateless session beans. Seam introduces a unified component model: All your classes can be turned into Seam components with annotations. Components are wired together in a loosely coupled fashion, with string expressions.

• Seam introduces new contexts and manages component scope automatically. This rich context model includes logical contexts that are meaningful to the application, such as a conversation or business-process context.

• Seam introduces ...