Every web site needs to keep improving, and your obd't servant is no different. I started almost exactly a year ago by replacing the old blog software with Pebble. Then I got busy with real work, and had to put aside site maintenance. Around the beginning of this year I was able to modernize both …

The Seam documentation covers this now, but it's a bit short of complete examples. Most of this probably applies to other JSF/JPA deployments too..

This first part is Seam-specific: To make the list of a given enum's values available to the view,  just add one new annotated method to a …

In addition to cranking out a new stable release (2.0.1.GA) and a new early access release (2.1.0.A1), The JBoss Seam framework has been renamed to "The Seam Framework" and has a new website, https://www.seamframework.org/. This represents a "growing up" of sorts, similar to …

Gavin King is often thought of as the developer of Hibernate, but he deserves as much credit for making Seam, the web framework that unifies JSF and EJB3. Now he's going for the standards hat, making Seam into "Web Beans", a Java Community Process standard (JSR-299) that should get …