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.