17.6. Summary

In this chapter, we looked at JSF, EJB 3.0, and how a web application that utilizes these standards can be improved with the JBoss Seam framework. We discussed Seam's contexts and how components can be wired together in a contextual fashion. We talked about integration of Seam with Hibernate Validator, and you saw why a Seam-managed persistence context is the perfect solution for LazyInitializationExceptions.

If you found this excourse into the Seam world interesting, much more is waiting to be discovered:

  • The Seam component model also supports an event/listener concept, which allows components to call each other with a loosely coupled (wired through expressions) observer/observable pattern.

  • You can enable a stateful navigation ...

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