Seam in Action

Chapter 9. Seam-managed persistence and transactions

This chapter covers

• Handling the persistence context properly
• Bootstrapping Java persistence in Seam
• Applying a multifaceted transaction strategy
• Implementing an application transaction

Most web frameworks remain agnostic of persistence rather than recognize it as vital to the overall state of the application. Stateless architectures, especially, have depleted the persistence manager of its true value—to monitor a set of managed entities and transparently migrate changes made to them to the database. Seam seeks to restore Java persistence (i.e., ORM) to its full potential by recognizing it as a core part of the application. In addition to adeptly managing the persistence context, Seam ...