.war file or .war directory?

[cicciociccio]

Hello I'm a jboss newbie.. I find somewhat troublesome the beginning or set up of a project: suppose I need to code an "helloworld" + link to "AnotherPage", I'm getting confused by dealing both with ".ear" folders, ".ear" file (compressed? already built?) I'm reading the examples and the seam tutorial, but I find the first example already too messy with injections, stateful/stateless things, half a dozen different xml files so I don't understand what they are really for, and if they are really mandatory in a helloworld tut.
I'm quite a good asp/php/as3.0/c++ developer but I'm messing a bit too much in learning this jsp framework thingies, so I'm here to ask: what is the very very basic, minimal empty structure of a jboss seam page? the same I would get with an index.asp with an

<% response.write "hello" %>

in it?
I will make it step by step from there, then :)
Thanks, bye!

[nickarls]

Download Eclipse Europa J2EE version and JBoss Tools 2, generate a WAR-based new Seam project and start sniffing around.

Hello World ain't what it used to be ;-)

[pmuir]

Yes, the simple example is probably as simple as it gets. If you want asp, then use asp ;)

[norman.richards]

I'm envisioning a future version of Seam with a special syntax for hello world applications. Maybe the exclamation point? Then we could give great demos:

"Watch now as I deploy the exclamation point to the application server. Now I'll access the web page. And there it is. Hello world in one character!"

[nickarls]

This is way beyond the scope of Seam, you should take this up with the Web Beans JSR. That would really upset the Ruby guys ;-)