JBoss Seam

Infobox Software
name = JBoss Seam



caption =
developer = JBoss, a division of Red Hat
latest release version = 2.0.1.GA
latest release date = release date|2008|01|30
genre = Web application framework
license = LGPL
programming language = Java
website = http://labs.jboss.com/jbossseam

JBoss Seam is a web application framework developed by JBoss, a division of Red Hat. The project lead is Gavin King, who also was the key initiator of the Object-relational mapping framework Hibernate.

JBoss Seam combines the two frameworks Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB3) and JavaServer Faces (JSF). You can easily access any back-end EJB component from the front-end by addressing it by its Seam component name.

Seam expands the concept of "contexts". Each Seam component exists within a context. The session context for example captures all actions of a user until he logs out or closes the browser - even multiple uses of the browser back-button.

You can automatically generate a CRUD (create-read-update-delete) web application from an existing database using the command line tool seam-gen, which is supplied with the framework.

WYSIWYG development JBoss Seam is facilitated through the use of JBoss Tools, a set of plug-ins designed for the open source Eclipse integrated development environment.

Seam may be integrated with JBoss RichFaces or ICEsoft ICEfaces AJAX libraries.

See also

* List of web application frameworks
* Comparison of web application frameworks

External links

* [http://www.seamframework.org/Home Seam Framework homepage]
* [http://www.jboss.com/products/seam JBoss Seam Product Page] @ JBoss
* [http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossseam JBoss Seam Project Page] @ JBoss Labs
* The official [http://docs.jboss.com/seam/ JBoss Seam reference documentation]
* [http://www.infoq.com/articles/jboss-seam Article on JBoss Seam on InfoQ]
* [http://www.mastertheboss.com] @ JBoss Seam tutorials