Seam / JSF / GWT Integration: What, Why, and How
Rob Jellinghaus, rjellinghaus at gmail dot com
Article version 0.2, 1 May 2007
This article describes the rationale behind and the implementation of a demonstration application integrating JBoss Seam, Java Server Faces, and the Google Web Toolkit.
This integration is very much a work in progress, but has reached a sufficiently complete point to be worth describing in more detail.
The demo this article describes is available here: http://unrealities.com/seamgwt—feel free to download it and play with it either before or after reading this article. The build directory contains a “jboss-seam-blog.war” file which you can drop into any Tomcat (with JDK 5; there may be an issue with JDK 6), then go to http://localhost:8080/jboss-seam-blog, scroll to the bottom, and click “[Browse with GWT]”. See the included readme.txt for more details.
