26. Using a Production Database

Seam is an ideal solution for developing database-driven web applications. But so far in this book, for the sake of simplicity, we have not showed how to use a production-quality relational database in our example applications. Instead, all our examples use the HSQL database engine embedded inside the JBoss AS to store data. The advantage of using HSQL is that we do not need extra configuration in the application; it is the default java:/DefaultDS data source in the server environment.

However, in a real-world web application, we almost always need to use a production database, such as MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, or MS SQL, to store application data. Fortunately, it is actually very easy to configure alternative database ...

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