[PJUG Javamail] Spring versus Seam

[Vijay Balakrishnan]

I have looked at Seam and it is definitely a very elegant, tightly
integrated solution for a stateful web app trying to access a hibernate or
JPA based app on JDK5. Seam also takes care of the back button issue like
Spring MVC. It also integrates ICEFaces and RichFaces in and also has jBPM
support with Drools(I think). Seam takes care of the LazyInitialization
issue that happens commonly with Spring apps talking to Hibernate(source of
a long email chain on PJUG recently). That is 1 of the main reason Gavin
King, the Hibernate guy went for the jugular in his dispute with Spring
which is a stateless framework. Seam also plays well with Spring framework
if you insist on it.Spring is trying to get back at Seam with Spring Roo but
it is still in beta and a newly started project.
Seam fixes a lot of the issues with JSF1.2 and handles all the scenarios you
have mentioned below.
"Seam In Action" is a great starter book.

If you have a backend database schema you can point to, seam-gen Ant task
will generate all the CRUD code all the way to a working Web UI using JSF
and Facelets(it uses HibernateTools for the reverse engineering and
Hibernate templates to generate the UI/View layer).

Vijay

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Bruce Kaufman <bjan11 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am looking to refactoring my web application (currently RichFaces) to use
> either Spring or Seam. I am looking for a more elegant solution for
> "stateful" situations and the "browser back" key.
>
> Has anyone recently evaluated them and have any comments?
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce Kaufman
> www.WoodsWithNoBorders.com
>
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