Beginning JBoss Seam: From Novice to Professional [Paperback]

Joseph Faisal Nusairat (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590597923 | ISBN-13: 978-1590597927 | Publication Date: February 26, 2007 | Edition: 1

JBoss Seam represents the primary counter to the hot and successful Spring Framework and perhaps even Ruby on Rails framework. The open source lightweight Java EE 5 standards based JBoss Seam framework is a part of this second wave of open source lightweight Java that’s taking place.

Beginning JBoss Seam: From Novice to Professional aims to take advantage of this hot area, and aims to be first beginning book and one of maybe two books to market in this likely lucrative area.

This book gives an overview of Seam related JSF and EJB 3 as found in Java EE 5; provides information on the tools to make development with Seam easier as well as a functioning in depth demo to truly learn how to use Seam; and gives tips and tricks to using Seam.

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About the Author

Joseph Faisal Nusairat is an experienced Java/J2EE developer with more than 6 years of Java programming experience in a consulting role. Looking for challenging assignments building innovative and robust Java applications using JBoss and other innovative frameworks.

Product Details

• Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (February 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590597923
• ISBN-13: 978-1590597927
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,424,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joseph Faisal Nusairat is a software developer who has been working full-time in the Columbus, Ohio, area since 1998, primarily focused on Java development. His career has taken him into a variety of Fortune 500 industries, including military applications, data centers, banking, Internet security, pharmaceuticals, and insurance. Throughout this experience, he has worked on all varieties of application development'from design to architecture to development. Joseph, like most Java developers, is particularly fond of open source projects and tries to use as much open source software as possible when working with clients.
Joseph is a graduate of Ohio University with dual degrees in Computer Science and Microbiology and a minor in Chemistry. While at Ohio University, Joseph also dabbled in student politics and was a research assistant in the virology labs.

Currently, Joseph works as a senior partner at Integrallis Software (www.integrallis.com). In his off-hours he enjoys watching bodybuilding and Broadway musicals, specifically anything with Lauren Molina in them.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Introduction to Seam as well as EJB3/JSF, April 8, 2007

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Nader Akhnoukh (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning JBoss Seam: From Novice to Professional (Paperback)

This book does a great job of introducing the reader to the relevant pieces of EJB3 and JSF that Seam builds upon, and then goes through the various ways you can use Seam. The examples are thorough yet built up slowly; he doesn't skip any steps which is often the case with books on frameworks. I read the book cover to cover and was off and running with Seam, and still from time to time look back on it for details on a specific topic.

It focuses on the core Seam benefits like the annotation framework and persistence contexts, but also covers more advanced topics like Security, AJAX and Rules integration.

Highly recommended...

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low quality writing, June 29, 2007

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Igor Polevoy "ipolevoy" (Buffalo Grove, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning JBoss Seam: From Novice to Professional (Paperback)

I have to admit that I do not write reviews, but this book compelled me to do so. I have read a fair share of computer books in the last fifteen or so years, I'd have to say that this book is one of the worst. Luckily for me, I was familiar with most of the concepts described in it, otherwise, I would be quite lost. This book is on Seam, but the first 100 or so pages are on other technologies. This might be good for some, but I expected to get a Seam book. The number of errors, typos and omissions in this book are innumerable. English is horrible too (has an editor actually read it?). Good percentage of sentences start with "So....". Code examples sometimes list imported classes, and sometimes don't. This makes it very hard to understand where these classes/interfaces/annotations come from. The book is full of statements without a logical path to them. The title says: "From Novice to Professional". Well, this is a bold statement and the the book does not hold up to it. I certainly would not recommend it to a novice, as Seam concepts are not explained well, and would not recommend it to a professional, because it just does not provide answers and does not go deep enough for those trying to dig the Seam. The explanation of a SLSB life cycle and other EJB3 concepts are unintelligible. The only positive thing about this book was time on the market, but as I have read the Michael Yuan's "JBoss Seam" book, online documentation and EJB 3 specification, I'd say that this book was completely useless for me.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Taught me a great deal, May 3, 2007

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Robert J. Stevens "Software Reviewer" (UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning JBoss Seam: From Novice to Professional (Paperback)

I learned a great deal from this book. I read it cover to cover. I'll save it for reference and configuration issues.

The first part of the book reviewed JSF and EJB3 and established their relationship to Seam. Since I'm new to those technologies, that really helped me too.

The book is easy to read and was very well written and edited. Congratulations to the author and to the editors.