Preface



Part I: Getting Started

Chapter 1: What Is Seam?

Chapter 2: Seam Hello World

Chapter 3: Recommended JSF Enhancements

Chapter 4: Seam Without EJB3

Chapter 5: Rapid Application Development Tools



Part II: Stateful Applications Made Easy

Chapter 6: An Introduction to Stateful Framework

Chapter 7: Thinking in Components

Chapter 8: Conversations

Chapter 9: Workspaces and Concurrent Conversations

Chapter 10: Nested Conversations

Chapter 11: Transactions and Persistence



Part III: Integrating Web and Data Components

Chapter 12: Validating Input Data

Chapter 13: Clickable Data Tables

Chapter 14: Decoupling Components with Events

Chapter 15: Bookmarkable Web Pages

Chapter 16: The Seam CRUD Application Framework

Chapter 17: Failing Gracefully

Chapter 18: Seam Security



Part IV: AJAX Support

Chapter 19: Custom and AJAX UI Components

Chapter 20: Enabling AJAX for Existing Components

Chapter 21: Direct JavaScript Integration



Part V: Business Processes and Rules

Chapter 22: Rule-Based Security Framework

Chapter 23: Integrating Business Rules in Web Applications

Chapter 24: Managing Business Processes

Chapter 25: Integrating Business Processes and Rules



Part VI: Testing SeamApplications

Chapter 26: Unit Testing

Chapter 27: Integration Testing



Part VII: Production Deployment

Chapter 28: Using a Production Database

Chapter 29: Performance Tuning and Clustering



Part VIII: Emerging Technologies

Chapter 30: Schedule Recurring Jobs from Web Application

Chapter 31: Improving Scalability with Multi-layered Caching

Chapter 32: Making Seam Groovy

Chapter 33: Introduction to Web Beans



Appendix A: Installing and Deploying JBoss AS

Appendix B: Using Example Applications as Templates

Appendix C: Using Maven

Appendix D: Direct Access to the Hibernate API



Index