Seam 2.0 Beta Adds Groovy and Experimental GWT Support

by Scott Delap on Jun 27, 2007 |

Three months after the release of Seam 1.2.1, Seam 2.0 has been released as beta. . Seam is an application framework for Java EE 5.0 the ties together many Java EE frameworks, such as EJB3, JSF, jBPM, JBoss Rules (Drools), and iText. Seam's stateful design allows those frameworks to interact with each other in ways that simplify the development of a variety of enterprise applications. Among the features listed on lead Gavin King's blog:

Seam WS allows Seam components to function as Web Service endpoints
Seam components may now be written in Groovy
The Seam core is now independent of JSF
Experimental support for the Google Web Toolkit
Integration of Hibernate Search
Introduction of JBoss EL, an extension to the Unified EL of Java EE 5
Major enhancements to Seam Asynchronicity, including Quartz integration
Major enhancements to jBPM integration
Completely reorganized packaging of built-in components
Migration to JSF 1.2
Simplified configuration
Support for pageflow composition
Enhancements to the integration testing framework
New transaction abstraction layer with support for non-JTA environments
Enhanced JavaDoc
Two new example applications
Migration to the new Embedded JBoss
Seam JSF controls reimplemented using Ajax4JSF CDK
Bugfixes

Earlier this week RedHat open sourced the plugins of Exadel Studio Pro which include Seam support. InfoQ has an indepth article introducing Seam by Michael Yuan, as well as two interviews with Gavin King about previous Seam releases and what Seam is.

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nice work guys ! by Michael Neale Posted

groovy by serge boulay Posted

Re: groovy by Gavin King Posted

Cool, can't wait by Stefane Fermigier Posted

nice work guys ! by Michael Neale

I helped develop the GWT support (as I use it on a daily basis) so I can vouch for it (it was very easy to do, ergo there isn't too much to go wrong).

Groovy support is very interesting indeed.

groovy by serge boulay

very excited about the groovy support

Re: groovy by Gavin King

Then check out the groovybooking port of the booking example to groovy.

Cool, can't wait by Stefane Fermigier

We're in the final days of releasing Nuxeo 5.1, our open source ECM platform. The current version is based on Seam 1.1 which already rocks.

Obviously, Nuxeo 5.2, due this fall, will be based on Seam 2.0. There are some exciting features in the beta announcement that I can't wait to try (but we have to ship 5.1 first ;) ).

Thanks for the good work, Gavin (and all the contributors to Seam).

S. Fermigier, CEO, Nuxeo