Richard and Jason,<div><br></div><div>Both of you are working on (polished) code to provide CRUD functionality in Java EE 6 / CDI, code that was laid down for Seam 2 applications by seam-gen. Namely, you are replacing the Home and Query components, Richard for the Forge scaffolding and Jason for migrating a seam-gen app to Java EE 6. </div>

<div><br></div><div>Ideally, you&#39;ll both reach the same endpoint. By that, I mean that the CRUD architecture in a new Forge application should match the code that we recommend for developers migrating from Seam 2 (specifically seam-gen apps). Otherwise, developers are going to be stuck trying to decide which direction to go...and that&#39;s no good obviously.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Richard, I noticed that you are taking the no framework route by using the EntityManager directly and weaving both CRUD, conversation and pagination in a single component. Are you fixed on doing it that way, or would you consider using something like the CDI Query extension developed by Thomas and Bartosz from CTP [1]?</div>

<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m not trying to push you guys in either direction, other than I hope that we can settle on a single approach to become the recommended way of doing CRUD. The Seam community has been asking for a CRUD and Query module for a looooooong time, and we are now at the point where we actually need it ourselves.</div>

<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m interested to hear your feedback, and anyone else that has opinions or ideas for that matter.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dan<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://ctpconsulting.github.com/query/1.0.0.Alpha2/index.html">http://ctpconsulting.github.com/query/1.0.0.Alpha2/index.html</a></div>

<div><br></div>-- <br><div>Dan Allen</div>Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action<br>Registered Linux User #231597<br><br><div><a href="http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen" target="_blank">http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen</a><br>

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