Using different libraries from within jboss seam

[fady.matar]

I have my own jar, a small reporting engine that saves versionned reports into the database built on java 1.4

This reporting engine uses hibernate and has some entities in it. I would like to use this reporting engine as is in a web application that uses JBoss Seam.

What is the approach for achieving this. Do I need to build an extension on top of that archive to make it compatible?

[pmuir]

No you can use any library in Seam (but of course there are no specific integration features for it so you have to call it as normal). You might want to write a manager component. If you need more help, be more specific.

[fady.matar]

Any hints on writing a manager component? Is there any example that uses a manager component?

What I want to do is fairly simple. I want to use the ReportManager to generate my reports.

Ideally I would want to use annotations to call it. Something like @Name("ReportsManager")

then invoke from the jsf something like #{reportManager.generatePDF()}

Does that help ?

[pmuir]

Lots of examples in Seam e.g. org.jboss.seam.mail.MailSession