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Seam is Dead, Long live Seam
With Weld 1.0, the reference implementation of JSR 299 – Java Contexts and Dependency Injection now released, attention at JBoss has no doubt turned to Seam 3 which is going to be built on top of Weld. Red Hat and JBoss are committed to returning innovations back the JCP as is the case with Seam […]
Continue Reading...Conversational Pitfalls
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 […]
Continue Reading...Glassfish, Netbeans and JSF 2.0 Test Drive
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.
Continue Reading...Notes On Choosing A Web Framework
I’m looking at starting a new project and once again find myself choosing between frameworks. Having spent some time evaluating different ones I wrote up some notes to share and get some feedback that might alter my thoughts or opinions. Here’s the criteria I’m using to choose a framework in no particular order.
Continue Reading...Seam vs Spring Web Flow – vs Wicket
In the fifth part of this four part series, I decided to give a non-conversational framework a try and implemented the same application with Wicket which is a semi-stateless framework. (update : If you have already read the previous version only chapter 5 is new and has the Wicket example and final comparison.) Enjoy, HTML […]
Continue Reading...Open Source is Hard
I’ve been working on getting my procedural texture library completed and released to the public which should be ready next week. I’m currently going through the difficulties that always go with getting that last bit of polish on a project to get it ready for public consumption. In particular, I’ve just switched over to maven […]
Continue Reading...Seam vs Spring Web Flow Part 4 – Conclusion
The last installment is finally ready. After many a re-write and consideration of all the issues to come to a fair conclusion, especially as new versions were coming out and new features are being added, I’m finally able to publish it. Framework Comparisons – are they ever completed? Anyways, here it is in all it’s […]
Continue Reading...The biggest defence of hidden fields
In this post, In defence of hidden fields with Seam, I discussed the reasons for favoring hidden fields over page parameters. I accidentally missed the one big reason that I avoid using page parameters with Seam.
Continue Reading...Seam vs Spring Web Flow part 3
This is the third of a four part series comparing Seam vs Spring Web Flow (SWF),and looks at the Seam implementation of the sample application. (Updated 1/19/2009 : Changed links to point to the whole set of articles) HTML Single Page HTML PDF
Continue Reading...Seam versus Spring Web Flow part 2
This is the second of a four part series comparing Seam and Spring Web Flow (SWF),and looks at the Spring implementation of the sample application that we discussed in part 1. In a day or so I will have the piece that looks at writing the application using Seam. (Updated 1/19/2009 : Changed links to […]
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