Dead link to tutorial

[csvan]

Dear all,

does anyone know where I can find the current Seam tutorial? The link on the webpage (i.e. http://docs.jboss.com/seam/latest/en-US/html/tutorial.html) is dead unfortunately.

In either case, are there any other tutorials you would recommend for me to get started with Seam? Thanks in advance!

[lightguard]

Are you looking for Seam 2 or Seam 3 information?

[csvan]

Hi Jason, thanks for the reply! Primarily I am looking for a good Seam 3 tutorial. As I am very new to the entire environment, it would help a lot if it included a discussion on working through an Eclipse project for Seam.

[lightguard]

Christopher, you'll do best looking for basic CDI information. Seam 3 has been discontinued, and unfortunately there aren't even people in the community it seems picking things up. Most work either has been or will be moved to the Apache DeltaSpike project.

[csvan]

This is news indeed...thanks for pointing this out. I will be sure to check CDI out.

[lightguard]

Seam 3 was built on top of CDI as a bunch of extensions. If you're looking for Seam 2 information, Seam 2.3 has recently been released. It uses the same programing paradigm as the rest of Seam 2 but upgrades to and supports JSF 2 and JPA 2.

[csvan]

Ah ok...so could I still consider Seam as a viable long-term framework to master and work with? My main concern was finding a mature, widely used and actively maintained component based framework, and when I started looking around Seam seemed like the right way to go.

[lightguard]

You can use Seam 2.x sure, though you'll want to start looking more at CDI and Java EE6 and beyond probably no later than a couple of years.