Tutorial: User Friendly Paging with Seam

[enrokuta]

This tutorial shows you how to develop rich pagination for your Seam web application. It is all about improving users experience and providing them with something to make their life easy.

You can read the tutorial here:
http://linuxbeans.blogspot.com/2007/10/user-friendly-paging-with-seam.html

Comments are much appreciated.

Link added to Seam wiki - http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossSeam

[pmuir]

Thanks!

I don't know if you've explored the Seam Application Framework, but it provides pagination based on the pattern Gavin describes in his blog.

[enrokuta]

I didn't know that, I have to check it.
It is kinda of embarrassing that I did something which already existed.

[pmuir]

Seam is all about choice ;)

[gavin.king]

I would suggest using Seam page parameters rather than @RequestParameter.

Thanks for writing this up!

[enrokuta]

Thanks for the suggestion :)
I wrote another entry to show the use of Seam page parameters with custom validators and converters:
http://linuxbeans.blogspot.com/2007/10/seam-page-parameter-with-cutom.html

[enrokuta]

How does Seam handle setting multiple page parameters for a stateless session bean? I used a SLSB in the tutorial which might be the wrong approach as SLSB cannot hold state across invocations.

[thejavafreak]

That's very nice indeed. But IMHO there's too much logic on the view. Currently I use Richfaces and it doesn't involve alot of logic on the view. IMHO it would be nice if you can create this as a JSF component for Seam :) Just my 2 cents