JBoss® Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java™ 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