JBoss(R) Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java(TM) EE (Prentice Hall JBoss) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Michael Juntao Yuan (Author), Thomas Heute (Author)

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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

 

About the Author

Michael Yuan is a product manager and technical evangelist at Red Hat Inc. working on Seam, JBoss Application Server, and other middleware products. He contributes code to the Seam project and writes about Seam in his blog (http://www.michaelyuan.com/blog/). Before joining JBoss, Michael was a software consultant for mobile end-to-end applications. He published three books on mobile technologies, including Enterprise J2ME and Nokia Smartphone Hacks.

 

After being a contributor to the pre-JBoss Portal project, Thomas Heute was hired by JBoss Inc. in 2004. He started as a software developer in the JBoss Portal team, and then became the colead of the JBoss Seam project in 2005, with the vision to bring EJB3 closer to JSF. At the end of 2006 Thomas came back to pursue his duty among the JBoss Portal team to work on various tasks.

 

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (May 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131347969
• ISBN-13: 978-0131347960
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #438,553 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars concise code examples, May 22, 2007

By	W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Yuan and Heute offer the Java programmer a very tempting route away from using the standard Java Enterprise Edition. As they point out, EE version 5 is an uncomfortable mixture of EJBs and JSF. The EJBs exist on the server side and encapsulate business logic. While the JSF is used, also on the server side, as a model-view-controller framework for Web work. In general, separating the MVC from the business logic is correct. But if you have to code EJBs and JSF together, then things get awkward. Code gets verbose and hard to structure.

The book's alternative is Seam, which is meant to be a filler between EJBs and JSF. One nice aspect is that Seam is inherently stateful. For a Web user session, this is vital, and it's nice from the text to see state built into Seam, without you having to shoehorn it in.

Perhaps the most persuasive parts of the book are the code examples. Granted, the authors wrote these to be as concise and elegant as possible. But if you accept that most authors of computer books do this, then you can quickly appreciate the contrast between the code here and comparable code in texts on EJBs and JSF. The latter code examples are much longer and more intricate. The brevity of code writing that Seam affords you can greatly help in two ways. Quicker to write. And quicker to debug.

Having said this, I am undecided about one aspect of the text. Involving what is called "dependency bijection". It is meant as a lightweight way for POJOs to interact with each other. As opposed to using framework interfaces or abstract classes. But the extensive use of interfaces (and abstract classes) has led to the successful development of extensible packages like Eclipse. (And I'm sure readers can cite other examples.) Is it the case that interface implementations do have limitations, perhaps in the context of Web servers and business logic?

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT INTRODUCTION TO SEAM!, July 19, 2007

By	Elizabeth Kent (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I needed to develop a project and fast. I purchased this book because I needed to get Seam up and running quickly. I found it very clearly written: with helpful examples and source code. It also provides a introduction to AJAX and has a few chapter on how to integrate AJAX with JSF and Seam. Very interesting! I recommend this book 100 percent!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on seam, December 13, 2007

By	Z. Shaikh "zahid-java" (Timonium, md) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Its a great book.. It difficult to learn Seam without this book.
It may be slightly dated, with Seam 2.0 coming out recently.
But per the author, there are not significant changes in the code
ie mainly config changes.
(eg they recommend JPA with tomcat instead of embedded server option
with tomcat)

Seam(and specifically seam-gen) still has some significant bugs/issues
to iron out(but workaround exists).