After years of Struts/JSP being the default choice for Java web applications, Seam together with JavaServer Faces and Facelets has become an excellent alternative. Seam is an application framework for Java Enterprise Edition which introduces the notion of declarative, contextual application state management.
In the first half of this session, Pete Muir will introduce Seam, its contextual programming model and its tight integration with other frameworks such as Hibernate, jBPM and RichFaces. In the second half of this session Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux explain why they chose Seam over the …

DZone recently interviewed JBoss Solutions Architect David Ward to talk about what’s new in JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS) and the Enterprise Application Platform (EAP). Ward distinguishes EAP from the various projects found on jboss.org and describes JBoss’ flexible deployment and configuration model. He looks at how JBDS tooling works together with Seam and Hibernate, describes the improvements in the jBPM Visual Designer and highlights new features in the JSF editor, including RichFaces components. He concludes by providing a roadmap for EAP and a vision for where he thinks developer tooling …