Seam 2.x Web Development Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Seam
• What is Seam?
• Why use Seam?
• Seam requirements
• Installing JBoss Application Server
• Starting the JBoss Application Server
• Installing Seam
• Testing our Seam installation
• Start the JBoss Application Server
• Deploy the sample application
• Run the sample application
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Developing Seam Applications
• Seam application architecture
• Seam components
• Object Injection and Outjection
• Example application
• WAR file deployment descriptors
• EAR file deployment descriptors
• Application layout
• Testing the application
• Building and deploying the application
• Seam data validation
• Data validation
• The JSF messages collection
• Building and testing the validating Seam calculator
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Seam Page Flow
• Simple navigation
• Seam style navigation
• Defining a page flow in pages.xml
• <page> element
• <navigation> element
• <rule> element
• Error handling
• Executing code before rendering pages
• A working example
• <s:selectItems/> and <s:convertEnum />
• Rendering the options in the sample application
• Running the sample application
• Seam jPDL navigation
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Facelets
• What is Facelets?
• Why Facelets? Why not JSP?
• Templating
• Template parameters
• Performance
• EL functions
• XHTML
• No scriptlets
• Obtaining and installing Facelets
• Configuring a web application for Facelets
• Changes in the web.xml file
• Changes in the faces-config.xml file
• Example Facelets files from the previous chapter
• SeamGen
• Creating the Vacation Planner application using SeamGen
• Seam debug page
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Testing Seam Applications
• Overview of Seam application testing
• TestNG
• Component testing
• Testing the user interface
• Seam component testing
• Mocking Seam components
• Summary

• Chapter 6: RichFaces
• Obtaining RichFaces
• Configuring an application for RichFaces
• Add JAR files to the web application
• Configuring the application's XML resources
• RichFaces controls
• <rich:calendar />
• JavaScript methods
• <rich:panel />
• JavaScript methods
• <rich:modalPanel />
• JavaScript methods
• <rich:simpleTogglePanel />
• JavaScript methods
• <rich:fileUpload />
• JavaScript methods
• <rich:gmap />
• JavaScript methods
• <rich:dataTable />
• JavaScript methods

• Summary

• Chapter 7: Database Persistence
• Overview of database persistence
• How SeamGen helps with persistence
• Persisting Java entities to the database
• Retrieving Java entities from the database
• Integrating Java entities with Facelets
• Relationships between entities
• One-to-one relationships
• One-to-many and many-to-one relationships
• Many-to-many relationships
• Performing CRUD operations on entities
• The Seam application framework
• Home objects
• Accessing home objects from Facelets
• XML definition of home objects
• Query objects
• Accessing query objects from Facelets
• XML definition of query objects
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Seam Conversations
• Component scope
• Local variables
• HTTP session data
• Global variables
• Seam component scope
• Defining the scope of a Seam component
• What are conversations?
• Starting a conversation
• Automatically starting a conversation when a page is viewed
• Ending a conversation
• Automatically ending a conversation when a page is viewed
• Propagating conversations between Windows
• Propagating conversations
• Viewing conversations
• Conversation configuration
• Conversation parameter
• Conversation timeout
• Concurrent request timeout
• Natural conversations
• Setting up a natural conversation
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Seam and AJAX
• What is AJAX?
• AJAX and the Seam Framework
• Configuring Seam applications for Seam Remoting
• Configuring Seam Remoting server side
• Configuring Seam Remoting client side
• Invoking Seam components via Remoting
• Debugging Seam Remoting
• The org.jboss.seam.remoting.remoting component
• The <remoting:remoting> component
• Logging
• Changing the Please wait message
• AJAX4JSF
• Configuring an application for AJAX4JSF
• AJAX4JSF tags
• <a4j:commandButton />
• <a4j:commandLink />
• <a4j:poll />
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Security
• User authentication
• Security authenticator
• Persisting user information
• Creating an authenticator
• Securing web pages
• Creating a logon form
• Redirecting to the requested page after login
• User roles
• Implement a role class
• Add required Seam annotations
• Assign a set of roles to a user
• Restricting user interface access via roles
• Auditing security events
• CAPTCHAs
• The Seam identity manager API
• Creating a user with the identity manager
• Specifying security rules
• Defining security roles with rules
• OpenID
• Configuring a Seam web application to support OpenID
• Configure an OpenID phase listener
• Ensure that the correct JAR files are on the application's classpath
• Write a Logon form
• Configure page redirection after an OpenID logon
• The OpenID logon process
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Enterprise Features
• Internationalization
• Defining the application languages
• Write application-specific strings
• Display language-specific strings
• Dynamically changing the localization
• Persisting the localization settings
• SeamGen support for localization
• Displaying Hibernate Validator messages
• URL rewriting
• Enabling URL rewriting
• Seam events
• Raising events
• Raising events with @RaiseEvent
• Raising events with org.jboss.seam.core.Events
• Observing events
• PDF document generation
• PDF required configuration
• Generating PDFs
• <p:document />
• <p:paragraph />
• <p:text />
• <p:font />
• <p:table /> and <p:cell />
• <p:html />
• Email
• Configuring the SMTP settings
• Writing an email template
• <m:from />
• <m:to />
• <m:subject />
• <m:body />
• <m:attachment />
• Sending an email
• The future of Seam
• Summary

• Appendix: JBoss Tools
• Overview of JBoss Tools
• Installing JBoss Tools
• Creating Seam projects
• Managing Seam projects
• JSP / Facelet editor
• Pages.xml editor
• Components.xml editor
• Running Seam projects
• Summary

• Index