Patterns and Seam

[hchafi]

I really am falling in love with seam, and I am building a prototype for a web-app that I will hope to launch as a service. I am bit fresh as far as patterns and j2ee. Seam does a lot to simplify and enable clean application, but do I need to follow additional j2ee patterns. If so, which ones do you guys feel are critical in order to build scalable enterprise application.

[gavin.king]

Most of the traditional Java EE patterns are now obsolete. They were usually workarounds for limitations in the J2EE architecture. Well, this may be overstating a bit, for example, some people still like to use DAOs in EE 5, though to me it seems overkill.


Seam actually starts to develop its whole own set of patterns (eg. manager component, the various search screen patterns, etc), but most of these are still only vaguely understood ;-)

[hchafi]

Will these patterns be discussed in the upcoming Seam book?


-hc

[basel]

I would love to see a chapter or even a section dedicated to design patterns in the upcoming Seam Book. Discussing new patterns specific to Seam and why some of the current J2EE patterns are obsolete is definitely a plus.

[bfo81]

There will be a Seam book? Whow, great :). Any idea when it will be available, or is this question way to early?

[basel]

We are already well advanced on a Seam book (it is at the review process)

It would be nice if we could participate in the review process.