I've begun the work on this, focusing initially on the build (I will need lots of advice on how to best *implement* the functionality using 299). Right now, I have three pom.xml files committed:

modules/version-matrix/pom.xml
examples/pom.xml
examples/booking/pom.xml

They depend on each other ascending the list. Pete, you mentioned that the Seam version-matrix should use the WB version-matrix as the parent. I have not done that yet (since I don't need that many dependencies yet given what I have so far). Shane, please feel free to hack this file up as needed. I just had to have it in place to do anything w/ the examples.

The good news is that the seam-booking.war can be built and deployed to JBoss AS 5. It doesn't really do anything yet except show the home page. Tomorrow I can dive in and start to get a screen or two going.

I would then like to research getting Maven to deploy the examples...only falling back to Ant if I am just fighting with it too much.

Couple of questions so far.

1. Can I use the standard src/main/webapp for the web assets? The webbeans build uses WebContent which I guess is for JBDS. But I think I can get JBDS to work with src/main/webapp just fine. I'm also open to the folder named "view". I really dislike the folder name WebContent.
2. We are setting JSF to version 2.0.0.PR2, right? I guess later if we need to we can think about how to enable JSF 1.2 in the build, but I'm assuming we are just not worrying about that yet. So I can use JSF 2 features (and knock out legacy Facelets), correct?
3. Should booking be an EAR or a WAR (or both)? I know I will need a Stateful session bean so with JBoss AS 5 that still requires use of an EAR I believe. I seem to have answered my own question. Just verify.

Also, please can we use consistent formatting of XML files in Seam 3? It appears this team likes 3 spaces. I'm willing to go with that (though I prefer tabs myself). Just be conscious of this because it really gets tedious when it's all different.

So far, so good. Shane, let's keep chatting. I should be back on IM this week.

-Dan