JSF's component-based methodology encourages abstraction, but most Ajax implementations interfere with it by exposing the underlying HTTP exchange. In this final article in the Seamless JSF series, Dan Allen shows you how to use the Seam Re...More
JSF's component-based methodology encourages abstraction, but most Ajax implementations interfere with it by exposing the underlying HTTP exchange. In this final article in the Seamless JSF series, Dan Allen shows you how to use the Seam Remoting API and Ajax4jsf components to communicate with managed beans on the server as if they were local to the browser. You'll learn how surprisingly easy it is to leverage Ajax as a natural improvement on JSF's event-driven architecture and how to do so without compromising the JSF component model.
JBoss Seam is a new full-stack web application framework that unifies and integrates Ajax, JSF, EJB3, Portlets, and BPM. This article is an editted excerpt of chapters 1 and 2 from the first (to-be-released) book on Seam by Michael Yuan and...