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/.

Table of Contents

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