JBoss Seam tutorials

Question

Let's say that I'm new to JBoss Seam, is there a way to get my skills up to speed? Are there any good tutorials?

Answer 1

Seam in Action book is a really good reference about Seam Framework. Read it carefully if you want to become a Seam developer. Take a special look at the following topics:

2.3.2 A Q&A session with seam-gen

2.3.3 Creating a basic project structure

2.5.3 Exploring the structure of the generated project

2.6.2 Accelerating development by using an IDE

Chapter 3 The Seam life cycle

Chapter 4 Components and contexts

Chapter 5 The Seam component descriptor

Chapter 6 Absolute inversion of control

Chapter 7 The conversation: Seam's unit of work

Chapter 9 Seam-managed persistence and transaction

Answer 2

You might want to pick up a book called 'Seam In Action' by Dan Allen. It walks you through all the frameworks that Jboss Seam glues together, not just Jboss Seam itself.

Other than that, you can learn a lot from the examples in Jboss Seam, which you can compile and run almost out of the box, or by using seamgen.

If this is your first time using jsf, hibernate, drools, etc, and you are new to bijection, go for the book.