Author: abogachuk Date: 2009-06-12 12:06:39 -0400 (Fri, 12 Jun 2009) New Revision: 15927 Modified: trunk/seam/docs/reference/en/images/seam_wizards/seam_wizards_1.png trunk/seam/docs/reference/en/modules/intro.xml Log: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBDS-153: key features chapters created, verified, some misprints and screenshots corrected. Modified: trunk/seam/docs/reference/en/images/seam_wizards/seam_wizards_1.png =================================================================== (Binary files differ) Modified: trunk/seam/docs/reference/en/modules/intro.xml =================================================================== --- trunk/seam/docs/reference/en/modules/intro.xml 2009-06-12 15:33:38 UTC (rev 15926) +++ trunk/seam/docs/reference/en/modules/intro.xml 2009-06-12 16:06:39 UTC (rev 15927) @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ <title>What is Seam?</title> <para>This introduction will help you to understand what is <property>Seam</property>.</para> <para><property>Seam</property> is a fully featured application framework on top of Java EE - 5. It is also one of the most popular enterprise Java framework today. Seam deeply + 5. It is also one of the most popular enterprise Java frameworks today. Seam deeply integrates many other standard-based or open source frameworks (e.g., JSF, EJB3, JMS, Web Services, jBPM, JBoss Rules, Ajax4jsf, RichFaces, Facelets, Spring, iText, Quartz, TestNG, etc.), and provides a single programming model for developers to @@ -25,6 +25,105 @@ applications with many component frameworks.</para> </section> + <section><title>Key Features of JBoss Seam</title> + <para>For a start, we propose you to look through the table of main features of JBoss Seam:</para> + + <table> + + <title>Key Functionality for JBoss Seam</title> + <tgroup cols="3"> + + <colspec colnum="1" align="left" colwidth="2*"/> + <colspec colnum="2" colwidth="4*"/> + <colspec colnum="3" align="left" colwidth="2*"/> + + <thead> + <row> + <entry>Feature</entry> + <entry>Benefit</entry> + <entry>Chapter</entry> + </row> + </thead> + + <tbody> + + <row> + <entry><para>Integrated JSF with EJB 3.0</para></entry> + <entry><para>JBoss Seam combines the component models of EJB3 and JSF, eliminating glue code, and thus, letting the developer think about the business problem.</para></entry> + </row> + + <row> + <entry><para>Integrated AJAX</para></entry> + <entry><para>Developer can add AJAX capability to the user interface of his application without the need to write any JavaScript code as Seam supports JBoss RichFaces and ICEfaces - the best open source JSF-based AJAX solutions.</para></entry> + </row> + + <row> + <entry><para>Bijection</para></entry> + <entry><para>Bijection allows auto-assembly of stateful components by the container. It even allows a component to safely and easily manipulate the value of a context variable, just by assigning it to an attribute of the component.</para></entry> + </row> + + <row> + <entry><para>New Seam Project wizard</para></entry> + <entry><para>An easy step-by-step wizard to create a standalone Seam Web Project with a form to create runtime and server instances in order to get started creating, running, and debugging J2EE (only) applications. You may also add JSF capabilities.</para></entry> + <entry> + <link linkend="create_seam">New Seam Project wizard</link> + </entry> + </row> + + <row> + <entry><para>Seam component generations options </para></entry> + <entry><para>All the Seam component generations options known from Seam-gen are available as wizards (with sensible auto-defaulting) for creating various common Seam components.</para></entry> + <entry> + <link linkend="seam_wizards">Seam Wizards</link> + </entry> + </row> + + <row> + <entry><para>Seam Editors</para></entry> + <entry><para>Visual Page Editor, Seam Pages Editor and Seam Components Editor provide you with a range of great possibilities and will be helpful when working with JBoss Seam.</para></entry> + <entry> + <link linkend="seam_editors">Seam Editors</link> + </entry> + </row> + + <row> + <entry><para>Seam Validator</para></entry> + <entry><para>A configured Seam Validator provides validation of various possible problematic definitions.</para></entry> + <entry> + <link linkend="SeamValidation">Seam Validation</link> + </entry> + </row> + + <row> + <entry><para>CRUD Database Application Generation</para></entry> + <entry><para>JBoss Seam allows adding CRUD support to a Seam Web application.</para></entry> + <entry> + <link linkend="crud_database_application">CRUD Database Application</link> + </entry> + </row> + + <row> + <entry><para>TestNG Framework</para></entry> + <entry><para>TestNG ("Testing, the Next Generation") is a Java unit testing framework that aims to overcome many limitations of JUnit.</para></entry> + <entry> + <link linkend="testNG">Using TestNG project</link> + </entry> + </row> + + </tbody> + + </tgroup> + </table> + + + + + + + + +</section> + <section> <title>Installation into Eclipse</title>