Well, I've been trying out the AppFuse framework which includes JSF+Spring+Hibernate before I started to use Seam. And it was a good decision to switch. Even the author of AppFuse, Matt Raible, says that Seam is great. Of course, like everytime you start learning something from scratch, Seam sometimes makes you learn the hard way. But hey, developing web applications in J2EE never goes like reading, trying, adapting, finished. It's not a picnic ;). And learning Spring+Hibernate was - in my opinion - much more confusing. Seam closes the gap between JSF and EJB3 (which is much easier than EJB2 was). JSF+Spring+Hibernate means a lot of glue code, but in Seam everything fits >seamlessly< together ;). Just have a look at the examples. I believe Seam is the very next step in J2EE webapps and it will surely lead to some sort of official and standardized Java stuff (namely "web beans"). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3956937#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...