What to know what's in Seam in Action?
9:26 PM PDT, April 17, 2009
You're likely here because you're considering making an investment in a book, quite possibly Seam in Action. The trouble is, you want to know if it's worth the time and money before you purchase it. Guess what? I've got just the resource for you!
Seam in Action was recently reviewed by a DZone MVP (David Sills). The reviewer gives an excellent chapter-by-chapter overview of what you can expect to learn from this book. And trust me, he didn't miss a thing. In fact, he reminded me of several topics I almost forgot I had covered! In covering the book, the reviewer also manages to highlight the shear breadth of services that Seam provides. It's amazing how much functionality Seam packs in it. After reading the review, there should be no doubt in your mind whether this book is right for you. Or you can simply take the reviewer's word for it. "It's hard to overrate the handling of the subject matter. If you want to know about Seam, this book is certainly for you." If you post comment on the review, you might even win a copy! Errata updated
2:34 PM PDT, April 8, 2009
A new version of the errata for Seam in Action has been published on the book's homepage. What's more, you
can now download the errata as a PDF document (generated using Seam's
PDF module of course). That way, you can take the errata on the road
with you to reference along side the ebook. (If you own the book, you also own the ebook).
HTML: http://manning.com/dallen/excerpt_errata.html PDF: http://manning.com/dallen/seaminaction-errata.pdf If you find any errors in the manuscript not mentioned in this errata, please submit them to the book's issue tracker. Update 3 of souce code for Seam in Action released
7:55 PM PDT, April 7, 2009
I just published update 3 of the source code for Seam in Action. You can download the source code bundle here: http://code.google.com/p/seaminaction/
This release addresses all of the reported issues to date and provides a number of small enhancements. Most notably, the quickstart task now works properly on Windows and you can finally run tests using JDK 6. What follows is a summary of the most noteworthy changes.
A recent review names Seam in Action "a gem"
8:01 PM PST, January 29, 2009
Seam in Action was recently reviewed by Christophe Verre, a bartender at JavaRanch. Here's what he had to say:
"It's a gem, highly recommended for any Seam enthusiast. And don't miss the two bonus chapters at the publisher's homepage." [Read more ] JavaRanch, best known for its Big Moose Saloon forums, is a local watering hole for Java folk. It describes itself as a friendly place for Java greenhorns. Free JBoss Virtual Conference - Feb 11, 2009
3:24 PM PST, January 24, 2009, updated at 3:27 PM PST, January 24, 2009
The economy is tough and your company doesn't have money for you to travel, so you can't go to any conferences this year, right?
Wrong. JBoss is getting its "Second Life" on by hosting a purely virtual conference on Feb 11 (it's not actually in Second Life, it's just streaming over the internet). Not only do you save money on airfare and hotel, you don't even have a conference fee to worry about. You just need to sign up, clear your schedule on Feb 11, and e-ttend! There's even going to be a virtual trade show! The JBoss Virtual Experience 2009 Enter. Discover. Advance. February 11, 8:30am - 6:00pm EST A one-day event focused on enterprise-class, open source middleware. Attend comprehensive sessions and chat live with open source leaders, executives, key developers, customers, and strategic partners. Register for free here: http://www-2.virtualevents365.com/jboss_experience Pete Muir and I will be co-hosting a session on Seam and Web Beans titled "The future for Seam: Web Beans and beyond". We will address that burning question, how will Seam and Web Beans coexist and what is their relationship? For those of you who have not yet looked into Web Beans, this is your chance for a gentle introduction. In other news, Web Beans is now "the spec formally known as Web Beans." Find out what it will be called when it becomes an official part of the Java EE 6 platform and the reason for the name change here. Mark my word, this is a great move for the platform. Seam in Action Bonus Chapters Published
8:26 AM PST, November 24, 2008
I'm a bit late on delivering this news, but as of two weeks ago, the two bonus chapters from Seam in Action (chapter 14 and chapter 15) have been published on the Seam in Action website after being polished, typeset, distilled to PDF. The chapters have been available online as Word documents since the release of the book, but have since been improved quite significantly, so I encourage you to scan through them even if you have already done so.
Chapter 14 covers Seam's business process integration (jBPM), starting off with a very gentle introduction to business processes that will be sure to get you excited about trying out a business process in your application. Seam's integration with Spring is covered inside and out in chapter 15, giving you a plethora of ideas on how to leverage the two frameworks together. The best part is, the chapters are free! That means there are now four free chapters available! (1, 7, 14, 15) And those are complete chapters, not excerpts of a chapter with vital pages missing. There are two reasons for this. First, I really want you to get the information you need to use Seam effectively. It's also because I want you to appreciate how in-depth I went with this book so that you are confident in your decision to go "all in" and purchase it (Manning.com, Amazon.com). And please, after you read the book, consider posting a review on Amazon to share with others what you thought of it. This post is syndicated from mojavelinux.com. Giving credit where credit is due
10:45 PM PDT, October 2, 2008
I won't be shy about saying that writing Seam in Action was difficult. It was an ambitious endeavor that challenged me on both a discipline and intellectual level. But the successful completion of this book was made possible only because I was able to lean on so many people, a situation more accurately described as my supporters supplying me the motivation to press on. I simply cannot thank them enough. I am publicizing the acknowledgments from the book in this entry because the names of these good people should not be locked behind the cover of the book, but rather radiating out in the open in full disclosure.
Acknowledgments While writing this book, I made many promises to myself and others about what I'd do when I finished. The most important of those promises was to acknowledge everyone who made this book possible. Of course, I'm grateful to have you as a reader. But you should appreciate those people who got this book out on the shelves and into your hands. The first and last person I want to thank is my wife, Sarah. If it weren't for her help, you wouldn't be holding this book. I have no idea where to even begin thanking her. She pushed me to believe in myself, kept me motivated when the end kept moving further away, tolerated being inundated with Seam and my relentless questioning about how to structure the book, edited drafts, assembled the index, provided therapy, made sure I ate, and took care of countless chores I let slip. What meant the most is that she put my project before her own, something I look forward to doing for her now. Please help me in thanking her. Writing a book puts a tremendous strain on relationships. I would like to thank all my friends and family for supporting me in this endeavor and having faith that I would eventually come out of my hole and once again answer phone calls, hang out, and talk about something other than writing a book. I am forever indebted to my parents, James and Mary Allen, for extending me every opportunity in my life to be successful. A person only gets one childhood and they made it both a rewarding and a memorable one. Mom and Dad, thanks for passing on to me your relentless perseverance and strong desire to learn and for always being there to support me in my endeavors. Rewinding to the origin of this book, I want to thank Andrew Glover for introducing me to Jennifer Aloi from IBM developerWorks, who in turn launched my technical writing career by sponsoring the Seamless JSF series. Much of the credit for that series' success goes to Athen O'Shea for doing a superb job of editing and helping me find the right words. Little did I know that I would soon be buried deep in turning those ideas into a book. I want to thank Marjan Bace and Michael Stephens for taking a chance on me and trusting that I would finish as I blew past one deadline after the next. Something tells me they had the real schedule hidden in a drawer and had already anticipated the 15 months that would elapse over the course of this project. I'm also grateful to Andy Kapit and Andrew Van Etten of CodeRyte, Inc., for endorsing this book in its early stages. Moving along chronologically, I'd like to thank Megan Yockey who managed various stages of this project including the contract negotiation, the proposal reviews, and setting up the accounts on Gregor. Megan is one of the diligent acquisitions editors for Manning, so you can thank her for originating projects such as Seam in Action. I'd like to acknowledge Cynthia Kane, my development editor, for helping me see the big picture and for reminding me that I had a book to write when I started to daydream. I was fortunate to have an ambitious and talented set of reviewers who donated their time and insight to help make this the best Seam resource available: Peter Johnson, Doug Warren, Peter Pavlovich, Devon Hillard, Nikolaos Kaintantzis, Hung Tang, Michael Smolyak, Benjamin Muschko, Kevin Galligan, Judy Guglielmin, Valentin Crettaz, Carol McDonald, Ara Abrahamian, Horaci Macias, Norman Richards, Ted Goddard, Costantino Cerbo, Mark Eagle, Carlo Bottiglieri, and Jord Sonneveld. Thanks to Karen Tegtmeyer for seeking out the reviewers, conducting the reviews, and scaring the volunteers into actually sending back their comments. Special thanks to Benjamin Muschko, Pete Pavlovich, and Ray Van Eperen for thoroughly reading the book and giving me line-by-line edits and advice; thanks to Shane Bryzak for doing a last minute review of chapter 11 and providing valuable corrections just in time; thanks to Michael Youngstrom for reviewing chapter 15; thanks to Ted Goddard and Judy Guglielmin for their help with chapter 12 and the development of the source code for the ICEfaces example; and thanks to Valerie Griffin and Daniel Hinojosa for providing last-minute corrections and feedback. I also want to thank all my loyal MEAP readers and forum participants, especially those who were there from the very beginning, patiently waiting for this book to materialize into print. The heroes of this project are the production team, under the leadership of Mary Piergies, who coaxed me out of rewriting hell and worked in overdrive to get this book into print. The person who took on the biggest burden in this transition was Liz Welch, my copy editor. I want to extend enormous thanks to Liz for weeding out all the inconsistencies in the book and tolerating my pursuit of perfection. I also want to thank Norman Richards, my technical editor, for challenging me to get all my facts about Seam straight and steering me away from giving readers impractical advice. I'd like to recognize the tremendous work done by the remaining members of the production and postproduction team: Katie Tennant for proofreading the manuscript, squashing all of those "writing bugs"; Dottie Marsico and Gordan Salinovic for morphing the chapters from word processor format into the professional layout that you see in front of you in record time; Leslie Haimes for making the book look eye-catching on the shelves and enticing readers, like yourself, to dive into it; Tiffany Taylor for maintaining the document templates; Gabriel Dobrescu for handling the book's web presence on manning.com; and Steven Hong for continued support in publicizing the book and preparing marketing materials. Join me in thanking Gavin King for sharing his vision of Seam and its contextual component model with the world as an open source project and to all the Seam developers that matured his vision into the robust integration framework that it is today. I would like to thank Panera Bread in Laurel, MD, for serving as my retreat/second office when my house was trying to stifle my writing. I am grateful for the bottomless tea and free wireless internet. I wish more companies were as progressive as yours. I'm happy to say that each and every person mentioned in this passage, and regretfully those I overlooked, helped me complete the most ambitious goal of my life. Thanks again to my wife for standing by me during this project. Now's the time to invest
10:14 AM PDT, September 16, 2008
You can be sure that the recent economic news had me uneasy at first, which is likely true for many of you as well. But then I realized that I have planned for these rainy days by training myself in the latest enterprise technologies. With the market flirting with instability, now, more than ever, is the time to invest in yourself by reading books and building up experience with the technologies to remind your employer or the next company that calls you why you are valuable to them.
In his latest keynote presentation entitled Career 2.0 as research for his upcoming book, Jared Richardson talks about how you can position yourself for the next big raise or offer by keeping your skills fresh. If you are building the next enterprise application, invest in Seam in Action. If you vision creating the next great search engine, Hibernate Search in Action or Lucene in Action is where you want to put your money. If you want to get agile, go in on Groovy in Action and Test Driven or even one of the Pragmatic Programmers series. The database is the core of most applications, so Java Persistence with Hibernate is a sure bet. You likely have your own ideas of where the technology market is headed, so browse the shelves at the book store and find the bucket where you want to put your knowledge savings. Your career is your stock and the books, as well as the time you spend reading them, is your currency. When times are tight, don't get stingy on investing in these valuable resources. Instead, cut back on the coffee, the pay-per-view movies, and excessive dining out and instead curl up in your reading chair and plan for your future. Seam in Action is final, finally!
3:48 PM PDT, August 28, 2008, updated at 6:01 PM PDT, August 28, 2008
In the writing business, it ain't over until the book is printed. Well, in response to the question I have been asked countless times by family, friends, and colleagues over the last 15 months, "How's the book?", I can finally shout, "It's done!" (followed by an immediate collapse from exhaustion). In Winston Churchill's words, I have finally killed the monster and flung him out into the public.
Seam in Action went to the printer two weeks ago and will be available September 5th on the bookstore shelves, online (manning.com or elsewhere), and at the JSFOne Conference. I have held off doing an annoucement until today since there was still work to be done to get the ebook ready and I didn't want to say it is done until it is really available. I just checked in the official release of the source code for the book this morning, which means that ebook can now be released into the wild. As of today, the ebook is being sent to subscribers and is available for purchase on manning.com. If you order the print version of the book, you get the ebook for free, exactly as it should be. The last 15 months have been incredibly challenging on so many levels. With each weekend that passed by it seemed as though the end was getting furthur and furthur away, yet life did not pause. I had one job, took a sabatical, left that job, started another job, took another sabatical, bought a car, changed computers three times, my sister moved to NY to Knoxville to Atlanta and switched jobs three times, my college roommate got married, a life-long friend a baby, one of my cousins had a baby, my wife's cousin passed away, two of my neighbors moved away, I had my first speaking engagement at a conference, I attended four conferences, I traveled to Europe for the first time in my life, a family vacation came and went, an Olympics came and went, an NFL season came and went, and the list goes on. The story of "the last mile" told by the authors of the SOA Security book mirrors exactly what I went through during the long tail of this project, so I will refrain from retelling it here. Thankfully, my enthusiasm for Seam and the support of my wife kept me going and I can now share with you the extensive research I have done over that time period. My only regret is that I would have gotten the book to you sooner, but Seam has such a bright future that by no means was a window missed. Thanks to all of you who remained patient and helped keep me atop Manning's MEAP bestseller list throughout most of the process. There is still plenty I want to say about this experience, both at a personal and professional level, but right now I am having difficulty getting the words to flow. Keep watching for additional entries that are to come. Right now, I am just happy to say that I am finally done and can share the book with you. Get it. Read it. Learn from it. This post is syndicated from mojavelinux.com. Seam in Action promotion at JavaRanch
5:21 PM PDT, August 6, 2008, updated at 5:32 PM PDT, August 6, 2008
In the midst of the final countdown to the publication of Seam in Action, I will be answering questions about the book, and Seam in general, on the JavaRanch forums. Ask a question and enter to win a copy of the book. Better yet, just stop on by to say "Hi!" and pick my brain about Seam.
Here's the official announcement: We are thrilled to have Dan Allen on the ranch to promote the book "Seam in Action". The promotion will be held in the Application Frameworks forum which can be found here:See you at the ranch! And wish me luck on finishing the book. I'll need it! This post is syndicated from mojavelinux.com.
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Bio
Dan Allen is an software consultant, author, and open source advocate. After graduating from Cornell University with a degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 2000, Dan became captivated by the world of free and open source software and has been involved in the community ever since. He later discovered the combination of Linux and the Java EE platform to be the ideal blend on which to base his professional career.
In Dan's search for a robust web framework, he happened upon JBoss Seam, which was quickly granted the most distinguished spot in his development toolbox. In the past year, Dan has published a three part series on Seam for IBM developerWorks and authored Seam in Action for Manning Publications. He is also a committer on the Seam project and active participant in the community. Dan has logged many years of experience with enterprise Java and has been plugging away at web-based software in general for nearly a decade. Dan has mastered Java technologies which include Seam, EJB3, JSF, Spring, Hibernate, Maven 2, and Groovy, amongst others. None of his success would have been possible, though, without immense support from his wife, Sarah, with whom he lives, along with their chinchilla, in Laurel, MD.
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