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InfoQ Article: An Introduction to JBoss Seam 1.1
JBoss Seam is a new full-stack web application framework that unifies and integrates Ajax, JSF, EJB2, Portlets, and BPM. Seam 1.1 released last week, and InfoQ has published an introduction to Seam, explaining what Seam can do with a HelloWorld example.
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JBoss Seam 1.1 Indepth: An Interview with Gavin King
Seam 1.1 CR1 has just released, with the full GA coming within a couple of weeks. Major new changes include the ability to run SEAM without EJB making it useable in any appserver and even Tomcat, a new concurrency model, ICEFaces/Ajax4JSF integration, and Rails-like code generation/command line tools. InfoQ spoke to Seam creator Gavin King about the release.
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ICEFaces Ajax/JSF Framework Open Sourced Under MPL
ICEsoft Technologies, Inc. has announced that their ICEFaces Ajax Development Platform is now available under the Mozilla Public License. This release also includes tighter IDE integration and enhanced JBoss Seam support.
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G4jsf - Integrating GWT and JSF
JavaServer Faces provides a general framework for web applications. Google's GWT toolkit also provides structure for web applications on both the client and server tiers. A new article on TheServerSide highlighting the G4jsf project shows how the technologies can be complementary instead of competitive.
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Ajax for JSF: ICEFaces Enterprise Edition 1.0
ICEsoft has released version 1.0 of ICEFaces Enterprise Edition. ICEFaces extends JavaServer Faces (JSF) allowing developers to write AJAX style web applications in pure Java without having to use Javascript. ICEFaces provides an Ajax Push technology that allows server changes to be "pushed" to browser based clients without traditional polling techniques.
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AJAX, JPA, and JSF Articles Added to Java BluePrints Catalog
The Java BluePrints Catalog available on Java.net has been updated with new writeups on JSF, AJAX, and JavaEE 5 Persistence.
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Is Java EE 5 lightweight enough?
An article yesterday asked if Java's complexity is its worst enemy, quoting Richard Monson-Haefel saying "They should retire Java EE and work with the open source community to come up with a better solution. Steve Anglin distilled the the problem to a simpler question: "Is the new lightweight Java EE 5 light enough?
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Struts and Shale (JSF) Finally Part Ways
After a heated discussion on the Struts-Dev list about the future of Struts and Shale, it has been announced late last week that Shale will become it's own top level Apache project, instead of a sub-project of Struts. This is good news for Struts and JSF developers, as the industry will not have clarity and also both camps will have greater freedom to evolve separately.
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How many production sites run JSF?
Addressing questions about JSF's adoption in the industry, JSF co-spec lead Roger Kitain has published a list of production sites using JSF, and is encouraging end users to you also add their own sites to the list, which currently includes a number of large deployments.