JavaFX and Seam,WebBeans

[nickarls]

I've only glanced at JavaFX but now that the JSF dependencies of Seam have lessened, is it theory possible to integrate JavaFX and Seam/WebBeans through remoting?

Or is JavaFX destined to be on the desktop and Seam/WebBeans on the server?

[pmuir]

Yes, should be possible :-) But how you build the bridge between the two layers is the challenge. Remoting is one possibility as is web services.

[shane.bryzak]

Including some kind of JavaFX example for Seam is pretty high in my list of priorities.  I think it's quite a promising technology and it will be interesting to see where it goes.  I will probably aim for a solution that uses Seam Remoting first, however if that doesn't work out then web services of course is a possibility also as Pete already mentioned.

[franciscoperedo]

And what about integration with JSR-296 Swing Application Framework  ?

[norman]

Are you volunteering to work on it? :)

[shane.bryzak]

Swing integration isn't such a high priority, however a side-effect of the work we eventually do for JavaFX integration might include a Java-based remoting client (as opposed to the JavaScript-based remoting which we only support currently).  This would make it a piece of cake to support Swing as a Seam client.

[nickarls]

Yes, I agree it is interesting. From a standards point of view, I predict that we will sooner or later see JavaFX -> WebService -> WebBeans integration.

JSF only is quite vanilla on the view side. There is RichFaces and ICEFaces etc but they are not standard, Flex and Seam are cool, but not standards.

[aburak]

Actually we're already doing JavaFX+Seam integration within Exadel Flamingo project. Some nice demos are already done and complete release (with fast startup project generation) will be ready in few weeks.

At the moment we use fast binary protocol for server communication and therefore don't need web services.

And as usual some nice client components will be created for native Seam support on client side.

And of course it is open source.

[benmoore]

Nice. I like the .swf demo.