Seam in Action

Foreword

The most challenging part of being a developer on the Seam project isn’t writing the code—it’s trying to explain Seam to new users. There’s a large gap that a Seam neophyte must cross to really “get” what Seam is about. The problem isn’t that Seam is overly complex, or that it requires an esoteric skill set. Seam puts together a number of ideas that are unfamiliar to mainstream Java developers. Many of those ideas challenge the common wisdom of enterprise Java development.

To start with, Seam fills a gap not many Java developers realize exists. We are so accustomed to working with a half dozen disintegrated technologies that a truly integrated application framework seems foreign to us. This disintegration is most painfully clear at ...