“Seam Framework” Finally came out in Paperback (and spotted in China)
I just received a hard copy of my book “Seam Framework” from my publisher today. That means you should be able to get it from Amazon and Barnes and Noble very soon. 
The book is the “second edition” of the original JBoss Seam book I wrote back in 2006, which was a JavaOne and Amazon best seller. But, it is much more than a “sequel” of the original book, my co-author Jacob Orshalick has made many major contributions to the book to address the latest and greatest features in Seam and WebBeans. Check it out!
The picture shows both the original “JBoss Seam” book and the “Seam Framework” book side by side — the photo on the cover of the original book was taken by Ju during our trip to the Death Valley in 2005.
In a related story, my friend Norman Richards (also a core developer on the Seam team) spotted the Chinese translation of the original Seam book while he was in vacation in China last month. Now, anyone in China wants to buy one and send to me?
February 7th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Congratulations! I’ll certainly be ordering a copy! I’m back to Seam after some time on other projects and am working on catching up on all the changes and new features, so I’m sure your book will be very helpful!
Devon
February 8th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Congrats Michael… will check it out.
When is the iPhone book coming out?
ceo
February 8th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Thanks Devon! Welcome back to the world of Seam!
Enrique, as every other iPhone developers, I am too busy consulting and making $$$ from the app store than writing …
February 10th, 2009 at 5:59 am
Hi Micheal ,
I Ran into the first edition on the book after trying to learn seam via sum other books, I must confess your book is a master piece, though I stopped mid way when I learnt of the soon arrival of 2nd Edition . The problem I have now is that I want to order the book. which will take a while to get to me b’cos of I live in Nigeria, So I was wondering if I could order a pdf along side which I could download and set to work while I wait for the hard copy to get to me which will take a couple of weeks.
Thank you so very much . Have a wonderful day
February 27th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Hi Michael,
I am currently working on a project and keen on using Seam. However, there is a obstacle which I need to resolve.
The situation sound like this, I develop the project using Jboss AS 4.2.2, Seam 2.1.1.GA, and Eclipse Europa version. I created 2 EJB3 projects and would like to integrate with Seam WS. I created an User entity class with 2 attributes - username and DOB. I created an interface and implementation classes, the method simply retrieve the User info and the return type is User[], just like the seambay example.
The above is implemented on the server end. On the client end, I created an remote interface class, however, I stucked on writing the same method. I am thinking should I create the same User entity classes on the client end as well, please advice.
I would like to know the right way of retrieving the User info from client end without implement the User entity on client end. Correct me if I am wrong about the concept of WS.
Thank you and have a nice day. Hope to hear from you soon.
March 28th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Michael - In chapter 5, bottom of page 58, the ant build/deployment for helloseamgen project was successful, but when I started JBoss I got a NoClassDefFound exception for the commons Digester class, and the .ear file would not deploy successfully in JBoss on start up. I was able to fix this by adding module entries for the following jars to application.xml, and then include statements to build.xml for commons-digester-*.jar and commons-beanutils-*.jar. (I thought this info might help others, so I posted it here). Great book, though. Thanks.
March 28th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
PS - I am using JBoss 4.2.3 as the book recommends.