new Seam position in SoCal!

[asookazian]

I have a feeling that there are only a handful of experienced Seam developers in SoCal/LA area.  So hopefully I can score this gig.  There is a new job posting out that I'm really interested in.  I have contacted a few recruiters so hopefully I'll get an iview.  My current new job is a total disaster.  Extremely complicated apps and environments with data centers in multiple states and countries.  Tomorrow night I will be doing a production release from 9PM-3AM (yes, that's not a typo).  JSP, javascript and scriptlet code galore, not to mention I still really don't like Struts 1.1 (or any action-based MVC framework for that matter after using JSF which is component-based MVC).  Don't even get me started with OC4J 10.1.2 (can't deploy a WAR, must be an EAR!) running J2EE 1.3 with JDK 1.4.

Anyways, looks like a JBoss shop running clustered JBoss AS, Hibernate, Seam, RichFaces, EJB 3, etc.

Maybe one day I'll be back on this forum as regularly as I once was.... 

side note: We have been using JRebel 2.1a, it's been working pretty well for us thus far, it will even hot deploy changes to xml files (like struts-config.xml or applicationConfig.xml) but components.xml is not supported (yet)...

[nickarls]

Good luck! (and hope this post doesn't attract a horde of seamsters going out to hunt for the same job) ;-)

[jeanluc]

Yeah, it'd be a cruel joke that everyone on this forum would apply for that new position... :)

[asookazian]

thanks guys!  well, the job market is still slow to pickup here in SoCal according to my recruiters.  but I still seriously doubt that there are more than maximum 50 in-house (non-consulting and full-time) developers in Los Angeles area with more than 2 yrs experience with the JBoss/Seam/RF/Hibernate/etc. stack like me.

once again today, after wading thru the Struts maze of action classes, action forms, JSPs, etc. it took me at least 3 hours to find and apply the fix for a bug in the appropriate method of the appropriate action class.  Wonderful life.  never took that long with the smaller Seam apps I wrote in the past but then again, I still prefer JSF vs. Struts 1.1.  I like the fact that faces-config.xml is something you don't need to refer to very often (unlike struts-config.xml, which is like a bible).  and pages.xml is typically straight forward to understand from the get go.  perhaps the annotations would help eliminate a lot of the code in the xml config files...

[asookazian]

well, I found another Seam job opening in SoCal.  this particular one does not state the company name...

[asookazian]

Well, I'm semi-officially back!  So that means I'll be posting questions (and not just answers) soon...

[cash1981]

Does that mean you got the job :-)
Congrats!