Seam conversations have certain rules that you need to be aware of when using them. This article came about because for the last couple of years, the same questions have been asked on the Seam forums regarding conversations. It is also a couple of issues that cropped up while I was working on the Seam vs. Spring Web Flow articles. Some of the problems are uncannily similar with similar solutions, so parts of this series may be of interest to non-Seam users. Additionally, it seems like a lot of this stuff will also apply to the conversational pieces of JSR 299 – Contexts and Dependency Injection which will be a part of JEE 6.
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I’ve spent some time in the last couple of weeks playing around with Glassfish, Netbeans 6.8 Beta (and milestone 2 before it) and JSF 2.0, and I have to say that this is turning out to be a really good set of development libraries and tools.
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