Has anyone had success building a SEAM Application without using Stateful session beans? There is some confusion on a new project in which I think several stakeholders have essentially 'banned' stateful session beans... but some development is being done in SEAM.
Most of the literature on SEAM encourages the use of Stateful Session Beans. Thoughts?
You can absolutely use Seam without stateful session beans. You don't need any type of EJB at all, if you don't want them. Seam can be deployed on a variety of app servers, including Tomcat which doesn't support the use of EJBs. Seam has the ability to mimic a lot of the functionality that EJBs provide -- session scope, transactions, etc. -- without actually using an EJB.
Using Seam with Tomcat, for example, you can have a very robust application without EJBs that is lightweight, but acts in a manner similar to an application deployed on JBoss or Websphere that does make use of EJBs.