What JSF implementation to use with SEAM

[vashistvishal]

I'm in a protoyping exercise for a company where we are looking for RICH UI application with AJAX support, easy to manage and develop aplication using J2EE.

After reading lots of docs i'm bit confused so thought lets ask the community

My questions are these :

1. What JSF implementation come by default with SEAM

Is it :
Myfaces
Facelets
Facelets JSF
Or You can plug and play any.

1.1 If it you can plug and play which is the recommended JSF implementation for SEAM ?

2. What is the difference between Facelets and JSF Facelets.


3. What versions of Jboss it (SEAM) works with

Is it :
4.2 >= Onwards
Because of EJB 3.0 support

Or You can use 4.0 and patch it for EJB 3.0 and it can work.

4. With new release of RichFaces (Ajax Library) which says it works
out of the Box with Seam, which version of SEAM it works with?

4.1 And it (RichFaces) says it works with Jboss 4.0.4 onwards I'm assuming it will work with SEAM on Jboss - 4.2

Any clarifications on these questions will be a great help in finalizing my decisions and recommendations to the buisness.

[christian.bauer]

1. Only MyFaces in your list is a JSF implementation. Seam 1.2.1 uses MyFaces by default, Seam 2.x uses the JSF reference implementation (RI) from Sun.

1.1. The JSF RI.

2. It's the same thing, a templating solution that works particularly well with JSF.

3. Seam 1.2.1: JBoss AS 4.0.5 GA, Seam 2.x: JBoss AS 4.2.x

4. All?

5. Yes.

Use Seam 2.x. and JBoss AS 4.2.1.

[vashistvishal]

Thanks Christian,
That clears th air.

So in a nust shell if I build a solution using

Jboss SEAM 2.0
which icludes :

JSF 2.0 RI - by default

Add
New RichFaces released this month -AJAX kit.

All this Runs on Jboss -4.2.x

I will be cooking with gas I say :-)

[vashistvishal]

Another question :
Will the new Richfaces 3.1.1 distribution works with old SEAM 1.2.1

This is a backup strategy i'm proposing just in case enterprise support for SEAM 2.0 is not available by Jan 2008.

Please correct me if i'm wrong here

This means I can still use Jboss-4.2.1 with SEAM 1.2.1 and Richfaces 3.1.1
and it will have Myfaces as its JSF implementation.

[pmuir]

Ask on the richfaces forum. We haven't done testing of RichFaces 3.1 with Seam 1.2