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Seam in Action Dan Allen MEAP Release: September 2007 Ebook release: August 25th | Print book: September 5th | 550 pages ISBN: 1933988401 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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Part 1: Teeing off with Seam
1. Seam unifies Java EE - FREE 2. Putting seam-gen to work - AVAILABLE Part 2: Seam fundamentals 3. The Seam life cycle - AVAILABLE 4. Components and contexts - AVAILABLE 5. The Seam component descriptor - AVAILABLE 6. Absolute inversion of control - AVAILABLE Part 3: How Seam manages state 7. The conversation: Seam's unit of work - FREE 8. Understanding Java persistence - AVAILABLE 9. Seam-managed transactions and persistence - AVAILABLE 10. Rapid Seam development - AVAILABLE |
Part 4: Sinking the business requirements
11. Securing Seam applications - AVAILABLE 12. Ajax and JavaScript remoting - AVAILABLE 13. File uploads, rich rendering, and email support - AVAILABLE 14. Managing the business process - AVAILABLE 15. Spring integration - AVAILABLE Appendix A. Seam starter set - AVAILABLE Appendix B. Seam annotation quick reference - AVAILABLE Appendix C. JSF component libraries - AVAILABLE |
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DESCRIPTION
JBoss Seam is an exciting new application framework based on the Java EE platform that is used to build rich, web-based business applications. Seam is rapidly capturing the interest of Java enterprise developers because of its focus on simplicity, ease of use, transparent integration, and scalability.
Seam in Action offers a practical and in-depth look at JBoss Seam. The book puts Seam head-to-head with the complexities in the Java EE architecture. The author presents an unbiased view of Seam from outside the walls of RedHat/JBoss, focusing on such topics as Spring integration and deployment to alternative application servers to steer clear of vendor lock-in. By the end of the book, you should expect to not only gain a deep understanding of Seam, but also come away with the confidence to teach the material to others.
To start off, you will see a working Java EE-compliant application come together by the end of the second chapter. As you progress through the book, you will discover how Seam eliminates unnecessary layers and configurations, solves the most common JSF pain points, and establishes the missing link between JSF, EJB 3 and JavaBean components. The author also shows you how Seam opens doors for you to incorporate technologies you previously have not had time to learn, such as business processes and stateful page flows (jBPM), Ajax remoting, PDF generation, asynchronous tasks, and more.
All too often, developers spend a majority of their time integrating disparate technologies, manually tracking state, struggling to understand JSF, wrestling with Hibernate exceptions, and constantly redeploying applications, rather than on the logic pertaining to the business at hand. Seam in Action dives deep into thorough explanations of how Seam eliminates these non-core tasks by leveraging configuration by exception, Java 5 annotations, and aspect-oriented programming.
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Get started with Seam using seam-gen
- Clarifies the inner workings of bijection
- Breaks down all the Seam annotations
- Covers integration with Spring 2.0
- Shows how to make your applications rich (and hopefully you too!)
- Depth beyond what is found in the reference documentation
About the Authors
Dan Allen is a passionate enterprise software developer, scholar, and mentor. For Dan, the end game is to be a mentor, and writing is one medium he uses to pursue that goal. Dan has over eight years of development experience using technologies that include Java frameworks (Seam, JSF, EJB3, Hibernate, Spring, Struts), testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG), JavaScript and DOM scripting, CSS and page layouts, Maven 2, Ant, Groovy, as well as a wealth of other technologies not mentioned. Dan is also a dedicated open source advocate, and is very proud, and not a tad bit shy, about the fact that he has been running Linux, and only Linux, since the turn of the millennium. Dan's professional passions are equally divided between Java and Linux, with a hint of other technologies mixed in.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of Seam in Action enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Forum
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