JBoss Seam tutorials

Question

Let's say that I'm new to JBoss Seam, is there a way to get my skills up to speed? Are there any good tutorials?

Answer 1

See the Seam manual, Chapter 1. Seam Tutorial.

Answer 2

You might want to pick up a book called 'Seam In Action' by Dan Allen. It walks you through all the frameworks that Jboss Seam glues together, not just Jboss Seam itself.

Other than that, you can learn a lot from the examples in Jboss Seam, which you can compile and run almost out of the box, or by using seamgen.

If this is your first time using jsf, hibernate, drools, etc, and you are new to bijection, go for the book.

Answer 3

It depends on your skills in JSF Life cycle and EJB3 (Session Beans and JPA). Having an idea about those is a must to understand what's the deal with Seam.

You should also read some about facelets and Rich Faces, since the examples in the tutorial make use of them.

Answer 4

I am also new to java and Seam and am attempting a rather ambitious website!

I agree that the learning curve on this technology is steep if you are not already a java web programmer.

I agree with the comment about breaking it down. Here are the things that helped me:

Seam in Action -- I can not read a book like this cover-to-cover, but I've read and reread some of the opening chapters and found it helpful.

Start with seam-gen from command line and a basic text editor. I eventually got my seam app running in eclipse, but it's not as easy as some would have you believe and for me it was just another hurdle to get over. I am using a simply mysql database as my backend with 3 entities. The steps are

seam setup seam new-project seam generate seam explode

Also, since Seam "knits together" JSF and EJB3 so the next step is to learn each of these.

I am doing a pretty good JSF tutorial right now online. At http://learn.exadel.com/

If you already know Java, you can probably learn EJB3 fairly easily.

If you don't know Java, start with the intro to Java class at www.javapassion.com.

I'm still experiencing frequent bang head against wall incidents, but it's getting better.

TDR

Answer 5

Seam Manual is enough for startup but you can read Seam In Action and code.google.com/p for sample sourcecodes. One of them is http://sourceforge.net/projects/tekir/. Tekir is written in Seam.

Answer 6

Seam in Action book is a really good reference about Seam Framework. Read it carefully if you want to become a Seam developer. Take a special look at the following topics:

2.3.2 A Q&A session with seam-gen

2.3.3 Creating a basic project structure

2.5.3 Exploring the structure of the generated project

2.6.2 Accelerating development by using an IDE

Chapter 3 The Seam life cycle

Chapter 4 Components and contexts

Chapter 5 The Seam component descriptor

Chapter 6 Absolute inversion of control

Chapter 7 The conversation: Seam's unit of work

Chapter 9 Seam-managed persistence and transaction