I was looking around to see if anyone got Seam working on the Google App Engine for Java… and the short answer is both yes and no. Here are the 3 links that will tell you the state of the state as of this writing… SeamFramework – The people who developed Seam lay down their… Continue reading Seam + Google App Engine
Tag: JBoss Seam
File Download Support
Need to enable file download support in a Seam application? Here’s how. Make sure you’re running Seam version 2.1.2 or later.
iPhone User Interface
Michael Yuan has a quick article about using Seam to program web apps for the iPhone in Seam. He’s using the iui framework, which looks pretty nice. It gives you the music player/everything look and feel in a web page. See the demo for an example.
Convert Date Time
JSF has a well known problem with date entry and timezones… luckily those folks working on JBoss Seam have a fix. Just make sure you use the tag instead of the and everything will be peachy.
Nesting Seam Validation Tags
Here’s an interesting one that caused me to stumble for a while… If you are leveraging Seam’s field-level validation and are mixing it with Rich Faces components, you have to be conscious of how you nest your tags. For example, this caused validation to be skipped: When clicking on the save button, you will bypass… Continue reading Nesting Seam Validation Tags
Seam on JBoss AS 4.2
If you want to run JBoss Seam 1.2 on JBoss AS 4.2, you have to take a few extra steps… Luckily, those steps are chronicled here (by Michael Yuan) and here (by Nicolas Leroux). Oh, and Michael’s site has updated samples from his book.
Charts in Seam
From the Seam Forums: Using JFreeChart with Seam can be quite useful: