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1. Re: Seam vs. Ruby on Rails for chat application?
felipealbertao May 21, 2008 1:16 AM (in response to btonez)Hello Brenton,
I am not a Rails expert, but if you are using Flex I would say that choosing Seam is a no-brainer. Exadel Flamingo tightly integrates Flex to Seam, and IMO Seam and Flamingo is a better solution than Adobe's own offering (Blaze DS). It is really easy to use Flex and Seam with Flamingo.
Seam beautifully handles RESTful calls. See the tutorial section 1.9: http://docs.jboss.com/seam/2.0.2.GA/reference/en-US/html/tutorial.html
Regarding messages... You can certainly use a database, but you should take a look at JBoss MQ (now JBoss Messaging) which is shipped with JBoss, and which Seam offers very nice integration.
Felipe
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2. Re: Seam vs. Ruby on Rails for chat application?
btonez May 21, 2008 4:22 AM (in response to btonez)Muito obrigado Felipe! This really solves almost all of my problems, and I'm really excited about Seam now. Regarding JBoss Messaging, I really need the chat transcripts (combined messages) in my main relational database to enable some advanced features. I'm not too familiar with JMS or JBoss Messaging; can JBoss Messaging forward the messages to one of the sender's conversation-scoped beans to be persisted?
And thanks again for your extremely prompt reply. Many of the other forums I've been on are not nearly as responsive or friendly.
--Brenton