Seam / JSF / GWT Integration: What, Why, and How

Rob Jellinghaus, rjellinghaus at gmail dot com

Article version 0.2, 1 May 2007

This article describes the rationale behind and the implementation of a demonstration application integrating JBoss Seam, Java Server Faces, and the Google Web Toolkit.

This integration Seam+GWT+JSF is very much a work in progress, but has reached a sufficiently complete point to be worth describing in more detail.

The demo this article describes is available here: http://unrealities.com/seamgwt -- feel free to download it and play with it either before or after reading this article. The build directory contains a "jboss-seam-blog.war" file which you can drop into any Tomcat (with JDK 5; there may be an issue with JDK 6), then go to http://localhost:8080/jboss-seam-blog, scroll to the bottom, and click "[Browse with GWT]". See the included readme.txt for more details.

nice combination.

A systematic approach for developing a certain type of software applications, typically including support programs and code libraries.

"Framework":http://freejdk.org/java-web-frameworks/ Framework is a wide category of software, representing everything from [[web framework|web frameworks]] like the popular [[Rails|Ruby on Rails]] to [[unit testing|testing]] frameworks like the [[Simple Test]] framework for [[PHP]].

web.framework version 1.0.0 for PHP 5 has been released. This release includes new features, including:

* advanced validators

* good integration with web.template (wt-call block)

* integration with other template system (you can use template as view)

* many small corrects and new features.

With this release, web.framework provides: - action and action-chains

* calls to other actions/action-chains from action-chain

* pre- and post- actions with exceptions (i.e. you can exclude some actions/action-chains from pre- or post- actions)

* validators for simple check forms

* advanced validators

* simple client side validators (JavaScript)

* support for DB configuration in framework configuration

* support for template systems (by default drivers for web.template and Smarty)

* good integration with web.template (wt-call block)

* integration with other template system (you can use template as view)

* router - for simple support for nice URL and generate proper URL addresses

* token - you can now check for reload/resend form by user

* authorization frame - you can now integrate your authorization classes/functions with web.framework and configuration file

* AJAX

* DB support (for PDO, ADOdb and web.db - I suggest using PDO)

* DB session handler

Feel free to download the framework, test it and submit any bugs and feature requests.

"web.framework :web.framework home page":http://www.webframework.org/

A systematic approach for developing a certain type of software applications, typically including support programs and code libraries.

Framework is a wide category of software, representing everything from [[web framework|web frameworks]] like the popular [[Rails|Ruby on Rails]] to [[unit testing|testing]] frameworks like the [[Simple Test]] framework for [[PHP]]. framework.

A systematic approach for developing a certain type of software applications, typically including support programs and code libraries.

Framework is a wide category of software, representing everything from [[web framework|web frameworks]] like the popular [[Rails|Ruby on Rails]] [[Rails]] to [[unit testing|testing]] frameworks like the [[Simple Test]] framework.

A systematic approach for developing a certain type of software applications, typically including support programs and code libraries.

Framework is a wide category of software, representing everything from [[web framework|web frameworks]] like the popular [[Rails]] to [[unit testing|testing]] frameworks like the [[Simple Test]] framework.