The Seam framework has previously been reported as running just fine on the GlassFish application server (in this blog by Roger Kitain for instance). In fact, JBoss clearly indicates GlassFish as a supported platform. The most recent article on that topic by Brian Leonard has inspired Carol McDonald to write about a "Sample Application using JSF, Seam, and Java Persistence APIs on Glassfish".

Carol's article has detailed steps for setup and coding with nice coloring to distinguish between Java EE, Seam and business classes/interfaces and annotations. It uses GlassFish 1 (but also works on the recently released glassfish 2 beta 3) and Seam 1.2.1 GA. You can start with the application archive which is provided as a NetBeans project and usable via ANT directly (including database creation and population) or follow the steps to create your own application from scratch.

Continuing the series ([1], [2], [3], [4]) we're pleased to announce that one of the GlassFish Day demo station will be dedicated to JSF Portability and shared between Sun and JBoss.

While Sun's GlassFish and JBoss can be seen as competitors we're happy to report that Gavin King and Sacha Labourey have agreed to show the efforts to have our JSF Components (Sun's Project WoodStock and JBoss' RichFaces) on various containers/implementations. Portability and interoperability is very important to us. Of course, there's more to JSF than Sun and JBoss, but better start somewhere.

For an overview of GF Day check here; and, for a free registration, here. Note we now have a GlassFish Lunch scheduled with Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green. Also stay tuned for yet more announcements.