JBoss Seam: Book Released
Sunday, September 17th, 2006“JBoss Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java EE 5.0″ is the first book on Seam — the next generation “web framework”. It is writen by yours truly and Seam project lead Thomas Heute. The book is published by Prentice Hall and is now available as a Safari Rough Cuts title.
Safari Rough Cuts provides PDF access to son-to-be-published books. For $3 more than the listed price, you can get early access to the PDF version of the book as it goes through the editing process, and then get a printed book shipped to you when it comes out in Dec 2006! I think it is a great deal. You do need to create a Safari login name in order to get access to the book — but rest assured that you are not required to sign up for the Safari subscription service. You will only be charge once for the price you select during your purchase.
If you are a Java EE developer, you probably have heard of JBoss Seam by now. It is an annotation-based framework to elegantly extend the EJB3 component model to all aspects of a web application. It is incediblly powerful for developing stateful web applications, and it eliminates almost all the unecessary XML artifacts and Java boilerplate code commonly plauged previous generations of web frameworks. Seam supports advanced web application features such as AJAX, multiple workspaces, business process integration, etc. Check it out if you have not done so!
The book focuses on the basic concepts behind Seam and uses several full examples to explain how various parts fit together in a Seam application. It complements the official Seam reference documentation and examples very well. Safari already has 16 chapters of the book. We will keep adding new contents and revising existing chapters based on user feedback until the book is signed off to the printers!