Seam – Andy Gibson

Seam Faces makes JSF entity converters a breeze

Andy Gibson Articles

One of the first Seam 3 Modules to appear is the Seam Faces module which provides additional functionality to JSF. While there aren’t many pain points left in JSF, one of the biggest is the issue of data converters for entity objects. This article will take a look at how Seam Faces takes the pain […]

A Guide to Spigot For Seam Developers

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Note : Spigot has been renamed to DataValve. (Edit : I renamed this post so it doesn’t seem like Spigot is just for Seam, Spigot can be used with different frameworks or without any at all. However, I wrote this post since Spigot is so familiar to the Seam EntityQuery that it should be easy […]

Understanding Nested Conversations

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I had a bit of epiphany on the subject of nested conversations the other day when I was thinking about them and thought I’d share. I think nested conversations have been a little misunderstood with people unsure of how to use them, myself included, but I think I have found the best way to think […]

Seam is Dead, Long live Seam

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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 […]

Conversational Pitfalls

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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 […]

Glassfish, Netbeans and JSF 2.0 Test Drive

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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.

Logging Conversation Demarcation In Seam

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One way to see where your conversations start and end is to use the Seam event model to observe the conversation start and ends. Just add this bean into your project and it will automatically log when you start and end conversations.

Notes On Choosing A Web Framework

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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.

Seam vs Spring Web Flow – vs Wicket

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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 […]

Timing JSF Requests Using a Phase Listener

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One easy way of determining how long it takes to return a page from Seam, and/or JSF is to use a phase listener. This phase listener below logs the end of each phase of the JSF lifecycle and measures the time from the start of the RESTORE_VIEW phase (the first phase in the lifecycle and […]