I'm working on creating a web-services-only Seam environment and am wondering if I'm going about it the right way.
The first thing I'm trying to do is remove as much JSF stuff as I safely can. Then I installed the resteasy stuff (I'll probably eventually move to enunciate but resteasy is good enough for now.)
So, given this I have some simple RESTful+JAXB requests working. However, one issue I had with the SeamResourceServlet is that when I set the URL pattern to /* the REST stuff worked but none of the normal resources (images, etc.) worked. I had to stick a directory level in there (i.e. /seam/*) for both the resources and REST to work. Am I doing something wrong here? I'd like "<webapp>/" to be where the resources live and "<webapp>/rest" to be where the REST web services live.
Another issue I'm now having is with tests. I'm trying to figure out how to write a test that fires up the embedded jboss and makes a RESTful call and then inspects the resulting XML. I'm looking at the NonFacesRequest stuff and the parameter for it is "viewid". Does this mean I can only use the test stuff with JSF? Is there a way to do a simple get/post and inspect the response and still have it go through the Seam lifecycle?
A third issue I'm having has to do with events and redirection. Normally you can redirect to a different view given an event (session timeout, etc.) How would I instead respond with a separate REST response? Can I hit a different seam component and have it produce the REST response in the case of an event?
Any help with these questions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Aaron
