Category Archives: seam

Generic JSF Converter for Seam

JBoss Seam provides excellent support for mapping of the managed entities back and forth between the select items and the actual entities. Tag s:convertEntity supplies JSF converter which renders option values and consequently translate them back, using Entity Loader (either Hibernate Session or EntityManager), to the appropriate entity. Whole process relies on the provision of [...]

Extending Seam Components

An important characteristic of every framework is a level of possible extensibility. JBoss Seam scores top marks in this perspective. Reason for it is simple. The main goal, to introduce consistent programming model that will make various frameworks to work together, is not just promoted for application developer, but also used through-out Seam itself. So [...]