Discover Seam and Sew Up Your Java Projects Faster than Ever
In the tradition of Spring, JBoss offers Seam, which uses a declarative state model, extensive use of annotations, and two-way dependency injection to make automation of huge portions of your complex Java EE apps not just possible, but downright sensible.
by Mark Smith
April 24, 2006
ecently, a friend called to tell me about a huge turnout at an Atlanta JUG meeting to hear about a new product from JBoss called Seam. I went to my keyboard and after just 20 minutes of reading about Seam, I was very impressed. For starters, Seam is based on the lightweight standards in Java EE 5 (J2EE 3) like the new entity bean spec, JSF, annotations, interceptors, and session beans. Like Spring, Seam uses inversion of control but unlike Spring, Seam allows injection of stateful objects. Much of the data movement and framework/API manipulation work that enterprise Java developers have drudged through for 7 years disappears with Seam.
Use cases and user stories record requirements in a conversational manner but Seam is the first product I've seen that facilitates coding in a conversational manner. For the first time, page-level and BPM-level interaction can be a first-class entity in my application. Use cases and user stories actually become the models for code.
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ecently, a friend called to tell me about a huge turnout at an Atlanta JUG meeting to hear about a new product from JBoss called Seam. I went to my keyboard and after just 20 minutes of reading about Seam, I was very impressed. For starters, Seam is based on the lightweight standards in Java EE 5 (J2EE 3) like the new entity bean spec, JSF, annotations, interceptors, and session beans. Like Spring, Seam uses inversion of control but unlike Spring, Seam allows injection of stateful objects. Much of the data movement and framework/API manipulation work that enterprise Java developers have drudged through for 7 years disappears with Seam.
