JBoss Seam: Book Released
“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!
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:41 am
Any alternative way to get early access to this publication?
Safari’s payment system simply s-u-x.
Tried four different credit cards, and all are denied. My banks all ensure no transaction was attempted.
It seems like Safari can only handle US residents (two cards were in fact issued by Citibank US, to a foreign address).
Has anyone succeeded to purchase this rough cut?
November 23rd, 2006 at 11:52 am
Dennis, I am sorry for your trouble. But yes, a lot of people appearantly have purchased it via Safari.
Safari has some known problems with foreign credit cards …
Fortunately the book should come out on amazon really soon!
If you have urgent need for Seam info, please email me at michael.yuan AT jboss DOT com directly. Thanks.
November 25th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
Thanks Michael,
I found the problem today
Safari must think all transactions from the Philippines are bogus (we live here 6 months a year).
So, when I try to process the purchase using my Swedish card, from a Philippine IP address, I get rejected. Using a Proxy server in Sweden solved the problem
Great book!
You totally ruined my planned day-off-work today
February 21st, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Michael,
Is your book still available at Rough Cuts? Clicking the “get the book here” link takes me to an empty page, and searching on the site gets me nothing for JBoss Seam. Is it gone for some reason, or am I just not looking in the right place?
Steve Gollery
February 21st, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Steve,
Yes it is available on Rought Cuts. The link seems to work fine for me.
Which browser are you using? Perhaps you are just hitting the site at its down time? Please try again. Thanks a lot. 
cheers
Michael
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:06 am
Michael,
Apparently when I tried to access the book from work, Safari automatically logged me into some kind of university account that didn’t have access to the rough cuts section. I didn’t have any trouble getting there from home. I’ve now purchased and downloaded the PDF, and so far it looks very useful. I’m looking forward to receiving the printed version.
Steve Gollery
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:45 am
Cool. Yeah, the Safari web site could really use some help — this type of “workflow” management for multiple users and multiple sibscriber “roles” is what Seam is very good at.
December 4th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Michael,
I got this book in Borders two days back while casually browsing and have been thoroughly hooked on to it even since. I am very impressed with Seam and the way you have described it in such lucid and simple manner. I hope to learn Seam + EJB3 + JSF et all after I thoroughly grasp the concepts from your book. Keep up the good work!!
Thanks
Sujay