Seam 1.1 GA
The 1.1 made GA today, find out the about the nitty gritty details over at Gavin’s post.
Congrats to the release, there are a quite a bit of new features compared to the 1.0 release.
Seam 1.1 CR2 Released
Following fast on the CR1 release of Jboss Seam is a fix of several issues, among these the ability to run the booking example on Glassfish (Running on Glassfish in the past has been possible, but have required some work).
From Gavins blog
Seam 1.1.0.CR2 fixes a number of minor bugs in the CR1 release, and adds some minor improvements. This release includes a version of the booking example application which deploys on GlassFish, the Java EE 5 reference implementation, along with the “hibernate2″ and “jpa” examples which run cross-platform on JBoss 4 (with or without EJB3), GlassFish and Tomcat out of the box, and which may be made to run on any J2EE 1.4 compliant application server. The ICEfaces example has been upgraded to ICEfaces 1.5.1.
Download:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22866&package_id=163777&release_id=467898
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10071&styleName=Html&version=12311064
Enjoy!
Seam 1.1CR1
The CR1 of Seam 1.1 were released yesterday, and it brings allot of new nice features. One nice feature are that you now have the option to use any Java EE application server along with your Seam-application. Another thing to note is the integration with the ICEFaces and Ajax4JSF frameworks.
- New concurrency model for AJAX-based applications
- Integration with ICEfaces and Ajax4JSF
- Support for J2EE environments
- The Seam Application Framework for data-oriented applications
- seam-gen, a command line tool for generating seam projects, actions, and reverse engineering existing databases
- Efficient clustering of Seam-managed extended persistence contexts and JavaBean components
- Support for atomic conversations
- Asynchronous methods and events
- Enhanced configuration via components.xml
- Exception handling via annotations or exceptions.xml
- Page fragment caching via <s:cache/>
- Decoration of invalid input via <s:decorate/>
- Page parameters for RESTful applications
- Themes
- Support for the Sun JSF 1.2 reference implementation
- Many, many bugfixes and other enhancements
Get the download here
Seam reflections
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been spending some time prototyping with Jboss Seam, and I must say it’s been a very pleasant time. I can hardly remember the last time I enjoyed Java EE web-development this much. The basic concepts are simple, and easy to grasp and in the same time there is a lot of power in the framework if/when you need it.
I haven’t really settled on the 3-classes per page (SB,JPA-POJO, JSF/Facelet-page) architecture, I somewhat feel that I’m “hacking” away (but this is probably just me wanting to over-engineer a simple thing).
I like the idea of a standard-based framework (using standard components such as EJB3, JSF), and I really hope the JSR will make it into the Java EE spec.
The examples are terrific, and the documentation is adequate (it is still lacking seriously in some areas though), and the support-forums over att jboss is active and viral.
That said, I think that seam has a great opportunity for prototyping and small-to-medium applications, and I believe the relative simplicity can make it succeed to less experienced developers. Hopefully the tools-vendors will follow up and make it even easier.