JB170 JBoss: SEAM Essentials

Course Outline

• JBoss Seam Introduction
• JBoss Seam Framework´s features, and benefits
• Architectural Overview
• Relationship to Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, JavaServer Faces
• Components, Servlets, and Common Annotations and the Java specification
• JavaEE with/without JBoss Seam illustrated
• JBoss Seam bijection overview
• JBoss Seam Annotations Overview
• JBoss Seam component & contextual model overview

Review of Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 Component Framework - (Optional Module)

• EJB3.0 Architecture Overview
• EJB3.0 SessionBeans
• Client Views for SessionBeans
• Entities and Java Persistence API (JPA)

Review of JavaServer Faces Framework and Facelets - (Optional Module)

• Overview of JSF & Installation
• JSF within JavaServer Pages
• Managed Beans and Page navigation
• Context data management in Beans
• Using message bundles
• Facelets technology overview

JBoss Seam Tooling and Projects

• Project installation
• Top-down, bottom-up, command-line tooling for RAD using Seam-Gen

JBoss Seam Component Model

• Component interception
• Built-In components
• JBoss Seam Bi-jection

JBoss Seam Context Model

• Fundamental JBoss Seam Contexts
• Declarative context model
• Stateful context
• Granularity
• JBoss Seam Application Framework
• Declarative Context model implementation
• Built-in components
• JBoss Seam Events, Exceptions & Interceptors
• Seam-defined events
• Exception management
• JBoss Seam Testing Framework
• Automated testing
• Testing tools
• TestNG
• Integration and Unit testing
• RichFaces
• AJAX Support