Dan had previously made Seam work with GlassFish but he now has woven the changes back (with extra functionality) into the Seam Project. Thanks, Dan! Specially appreciated is the support for RH (JBoss 5/RichFaces) and non-RH technologies (GlassFish Server/ICEfaces). Also newsworthy is the First Beta of JSR299, with a promised Seam bridge.

Related Webinars and Blog Entries:
• Seam, WebBeans and GlassFish, Dan Allen, Nov 20th, 2009.
• Short intro to ICEfaces, Ted Goddard, Feb 10th, 2009.
• From Ajax Push to JSF 2.0: ICEfaces on GlassFish, Ted Goddard, March 12th, 2009.
• Entries tagged Seam, ICEfaces, JSF.
• Arun's TOTD-77

As Announced Previously, tomorrow tomorrow (Nov 20th) we will cover Seam Framework and GlassFish in our webinar slot, but we will now have two presentations back-to-back. First, at 11:00 am Pacific Time, Dan Allen (Mr. Seam in Action) will present the Seam Framework. Then, at noon PT he will be joined by Ken Saks (EJB 3.1) and Roger Kitain (JSF 2.0) for a an informal discussion on WebBeans and Seam. Hope to see you tomorrow online. Full details are described here.

Our next webinar is on Seam Framework and the GlassFish Server this Thursday, Nov 20th. We are switching (back) to a 11:00 am Pacific Time. The bulk of the webinar will be a presentation by Dan Allen, the author of Manning's Seam in Action and of the Mojave Linux blog. I am trying to include at least one demo and perhaps also an informal discussion on WebBeans and its companion specs (EJB 3.1 and JSF 2.0). Details will be available at the Show Wiki Page as they are finalized.

The latest release of the Seam Framework (2.1) now formally Supports GlassFish. Dan Allen will give a Webinar on November 20th on the topic (you may want to add it to your calendar), but another member of the Seam community, Jay, has written a nice note showing more examples. Seam is related to WebBeans, which just released its Public Draft; the exact relationship is Described here.

A compilation of today's news of interest:

Dan Allen, the author of Manning's Seam In Action just posted a note explaining how to Deploy a seam-gen Project to GlassFish. The note is based on a more Detailed Description in the Seam in Action Wiki. The instructions currently only cover WAR projects, but Dan says he will expand as soon as he has a moment. We are also trying to find a date where he can present on this topic and on JBoss Seam in general in the GlassFish Online Webinar.

Wouter is on a roll with yet another fine article, this time on Seam, Maven, NetBeans and GlassFish. Previous articles include: • Building Enterprise Applications for GlassFish using Netbeans 6.0 (Beta 2) and Maven2 • Deploying to GlassFish using Maven2 • Combining Hibernate and Facelets with Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish

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.

Michael Yuan, a Technology Evangelist for JBoss, has a list of tips on how to Use JBoss and Seam. The tips are pretty simple, and at least one of them is no longer necessary (see the comment on logging), but what caught my attention was the beginning: ...Glassfish -- ... it is probably the third most popular platform for Seam apps behind JBoss AS and Tomcat

What about this for a catchy title for a blog: Spring and GlassFish VS Seam and JBoss... The answer is that GlassFish is happy to work with both the Spring and the Hibernate and JBoss Seam communities. Sorry, no duels not to the Death, ... and neither to the Pain!.

JBoss Seam has worked on GlassFish since 1.0.1 (original blog, update) but with some "TLC needed". Roger reports that the latest release (Seam 1.1.0GA) provides very solid support under both V1 UR1p1 and V2 b30 using Derby. Check Roger's Blog for detailed instructions and further links.

In early June, Gavin announced that Hibernate 1.0.1 ran on GlassFish (TA report). Later in the month, Brian reported success with his own example; but some readers posted some issues (see comments). Now, Warren reports success with the Booking example. The latest update is from the comments to Warren's blog that mentions some problems with selectItems. Also see these two threads in the GlassFish forum: thread 1 and thread2.

The Executive Comitee for Java EE/SE has approved the WebBeans JSR (submission request, ballot). WebBeans was submitted by JBoss with the endorsement of Borland, Google, JBoss, Oracle, Sun and Sybase. The submission specifically lists EJB 3.0, JSF 1.2, JBoss Seam, Struts Shale and Oracle ADF as contributed technologies, and lists the tentative final release as April 2008.

JBoss active engagement in the JCP is very good for the Java Community. I believe this can be a very useful JSR, and I look forward to its progress. Like with JBoss Seam, we hope to track its development closely in Project GlassFish.