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Welcome to the JBoss Seam Wiki

The JBoss Seam Wiki knowledge base is another source of information to look at when you are facing a problem; it references all the other resources that you can find for free.

It is maintained by the community and lives thanks to everybody's participation.

While all the necessary information can be found in the reference guide, the wiki is used to share tips and tricks in a dynamic fashion. I encourage any participant of this Wiki to keep a logical classification of information.

Seam FAQ

The Seam FAQ provides information about Seam as a product.

The Seam Problems FAQ documents common problems for first-time Seam/JSF users.

The Scope FAQ answers common questions about Seam's scopes

The Seam Performance FAQ documents performance questions and tips

Seam User Forum

The Seam User Forum is an important source of help.  You can search the fourm to see if anyone else has encountered a similar problem or ask a question.

Seam Documentation

The official documentation is the right place to start learning about Seam

• Installation guide

• JBoss Seam getting started

• Seam Labs - Lab exercises for learning Seam

• JBoss Seam reference guide

• JBoss Seam API javadoc

• Glossary of configuration files

• Seam dependencies

Seam Books

• In print since April 30, 2007: JBoss Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java EE (Michael Juntao Yuan, Thomas Heute; Prentice Hall)

• In print since February 2007: Beginning JBoss Seam: From Novice to Professional (Joseph Faisal Nusairat; Apress)

• Expected in print July 2007: Practical JBoss Seam Web 2.0 Projects (Jim Farley; Apress)

• Expected in JavaOne 2008: Seam in Action (Dan Allen; Manning)

Articles

• Seam: Introduction to JBoss Seam

• Seam: The Next Step in the Evolution of Web Applications

• Seam related articles

• Seamless JSF

• Continuing the Conversation: Understanding Seam Nested Conversations

Road Map

The Seam JIRA

contains the official road map for Seam.

Releases

• http://labs.jboss.com/jbossseam/download/

Nightly Builds

• Download the nightly builds

Seam CVS Repository

• SeamRepository

Tips

• JSFPerformanceTipsInSeamApplications - JSF performance tips in Seam applications.

• Reusable Action Buttons tag through Facelets Composition - Eliminate the boilerplate Action Buttons xhtml.

• @DataModel with Tomahawk dataTable - @DataModel with sortable tables using MyFaces Tomahawk

• Root Conversation List Component - Show only the root conversations

• JNDIView for Embeddable EJB3 - JSP page which displays the JNDI tree for Embeddable EJB3

• Facelets Source Tags - Example

• Expression Language FAQ

• Using Entity Home to manage entities in contexts longer than Conversation Prevent LIEs for Session, Business Process and Application scoped entities.

• ValidationIssuesWithSeamAndJsf

• OutOfMemoryErrorsWithInternetExplorer

• SelectItems - Simple direct usage without custom annotations. And with handling EMPTY element.

• Automatic login redirection when user already is logged in - Render another page than login page if the user is already logged in

• Web Services and Seam

• Using Seam with ICEfaces

• Using Tomcat DataSources when deploying to Microcontainer

• Running Contact List sample application on Oracle

• JAAS authentication and populating the Actor component

• Windows Single Sign-On (SSO) with JBoss Seam

• Jbpm async continuations and Seam Contexts in ActionHandlers

• DataModelAndDataSelectionEasyWhenYouKnowHow - DataModel and DataSelection easy when you know how.

• StartingWithSeamAGuideForBeginners

• Manytomany db relationship with Seam-gen

Examples

Examples are a great source of knowledge, by reading example code you should be able to quickly start a new project.

Lots of examples can be found by downloading Seam.

• Booking online demo

• DVD store online demo

• Trinidad + MyFaces + Facelets + Seam (explode to src examples dir and build)

• Icefaces + Seam + Facelets + Portlet

• JAAS + Seam - an example using LDAP and UsersRolesLoginModule

• OpenLaszlo + Seam - a basic example using OpenLaszlo to create a swf object (explode in examples/remoting)

• Flex and Seam - an example of using Flex to talk to a Seam backend

• Simple step-by-step tutorial

• Multi-page registration form with email notification

• User Friendly Paging with Seam

• Using selectManyCheckbox and a ManyToMany relationship

• JSF Solutions for many2many

• Handling images in your Seam web application (5 part tutorial)

• Database model

• File upload using Seam tag library - the fileUpload tag

• Scaling images using the progressive bilinear approach

• Using Seam context filter and a servlet to display and cache images on the client

• Restricting access to images using Seam simplified security mode

Components

• JSF Component Compatibility List This list specific components that are know to either be compatible on incompatible with Seam.

Tools

• Seam Maven Integration Seam Archetype, Seam dependencies and SeamGen like Maven plugin

• Create a new project that uses Maven 2 : Maven 2 archetype to create an empty Seam project that compiles using Maven 2.

• MOVIE: Using JBoss Eclipse IDE to generate a CRUD webapp from a database schema

• Reverse engineering guide

• Eclipse

• Booking example in Eclipse - Howto build a lightweight Eclipse project including Seam and facelets (with a minimum load of libraries and configuration)

• Registration example in Eclipse - Howto create a simple Seam project in Eclipse featuring TestNG

• Auto deploy in Eclipse - Some notes about running and debugging Seam application (any jBoss application) in Eclipse environment without tedious constant redeployment.

• Seam IDE: Eclipse Tools for Seam (From JBoss IDE)

Other movies

• MOVIE: Using JBoss Eclipse IDE for the Seam Booking example

• MOVIE: Build a webapp in 10 minutes

• MOVIE: JBoss Seam Generator and Eclipse IDE

Deprecated & Old Stuff

• SeamEntityConverter component: As of 1.2.1.GA use s:selectItems and s:convertEntity instead.

• SelectItems DataBinder: As of Seam 1.1.5.GA use s:selectItems instead

• Email component: As of Seam 1.1.5.GA use Seam mail

• JasperReports component: As of Seam 1.1.1.GA use Seam PDF

• Seam Resource Loader: As of Seam 1.2.0.GA use Seam's resource loaders instead

• Dynamic Image component: As of Seam 1.2.1.GA use s:graphicImage

• Seam Authentication Guide: Look at the Seam Security Chapter in the reference guide

• Create a new project : Look at reference guide

• Seam code generator: look at the reference guide

• ADF + MyFaces + Facelets + Seam (explode to src examples dir and build): Use the trinidad example

• Spring and Seam Integration: Use the Spring integration stuff in 1.2.0.GA

• JBoss + Spring + EJB 3.0 Integration: Use the Spring integration stuff in 1.2.0.GA

• JBoss Seam & JSF 1.2: Look at the reference guide

• Implementing File Upload: Use s:fileUpload

• JAAS Example using DatabaseServerLoginModule

• JAAS Example using DatabaseServerLoginModule ported to Seam CR3 (requires JBoss 4.0.4.GA)

• Using Seam with OC4J 11