Hi,

I last recently started with SEAM, and got the examples running (booking ...). So far promising. Next step was to use an easy, existing database, along with seam-generate. works ;-)
Now I want to extend it. I want a new action method (via a  button), that calls my SLSB - I somehow don't get it ...
I understand I need a calling xhtml page with the button, a SLSB and a home interface - how do they interact ?

Here is the source code I use:

XHTML page

<!DOCTYPE composition PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
    template="layout/template.xhtml">

     <ui:define name="body">

    <rich:panel>
        <f:facet name="header">S V N T E S T</f:facet>
    </rich:panel>

    <s:decorate id="svntest" template="layout/edit.xhtml">
         <ui:define name="label">svntest</ui:define>

            <div class="actionButtons">
                 <h:commandButton id="svntest" value="svntest" action="#{companylist.svntest}"/>
             </div>
     </s:decorate>
     
     </ui:define>

</ui:composition>

and here the JAVA CompanyListAction.java SLSB:

package com.mydomain.Money_Transfer;

import javax.ejb.Stateless;

import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name;
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Logger;
import org.jboss.seam.faces.FacesMessages;
import org.jboss.seam.log.Log;

@Stateless
@Name("companylist")
public class CompanyListAction implements CompanyList
{

     @Logger
     private Log log;
     
     public String CompanyList()
     {
          log.info("CompanyList(): Company listing returned");
          FacesMessages.instance().add("CompanyList(): Company listing failed");
          return "/home.xhtml";
     }

     public String svntest()
     {
          log.info("svntest(): svntest ...");
          FacesMessages.instance().add("svntest(): in svntest");
          return "/home.xhtml";
     }

}

and here the interface:

package com.mydomain.Money_Transfer;

import javax.ejb.Local;

@Local
public interface CompanyList
{
public String CompanyList();
public String svntest();
}

I don't see anything in my logs, nor any activity on the html page. I can click the button several times, but nothing happens.
I simply don't understand, how the XHTML button calls the java code... Can someone shed some light in my knowledge darkness ?
(didn't find it in the tutorials, nor in SEAM in ACTION explained) - thx