[seam-dev] passing on feedback

[Pete Muir]

On 7 May 2008, at 08:21, Dan Allen wrote:

> The awareness of Seam is very high from what I can tell being at J1.
> In two Seam-related sessions 100% of people had heard of it, with
> about 15% using it. However, there are two questions I keep getting
> over and over...and oh, btw way, the people who answer the question
> butcher the shit out of the response.
>
> 1. Is Seam WebBeans? Where does WebBeans fit into the picture? Am I
> going to have to rewrite all my Seam applications?
> 2. What is Seam's stance on the next version of Java EE? Is Seam
> committed to Java EE 6 or just saying the hell with it?
>
> For the first question, I think we need an FAQ on swfk.org with a
> short and concise standpoint just so that speakers can stop saying
> stupid shit (and shit that is wrong). I put in a first draft, but it
> might suck. Feel free to revise and make public:
> http://seamframework.org/21343.lace
>
> For the second question, I really feel that we should try to reduce
> Seam's code base as Java EE improves (I'm not talking about our non
> Java EE integrations here). That is a good thing. It means we
> succeeded in "fixing" Java EE. Then we add the next generation
> feature, rinse and repeat. There is great stuff coming in EJB 3.1 and
> already I see areas where Seam can repeat its improvement over the
> standard, such as with managed concurrency.
>
> BTW, talked to the Cisco guys and it looks like we have a great case
> study in the works. They worship Seam and about to go to production
> with it. They just need to work through some conversation issues. The
> target is Geronimo server (they said Pete and Gavin assisted them),
> but that is missing from the docs. We need to put Jay in touch with
> them to avoid duplicate work.

I believe I know the issue, and we need to dig into it. The Geronimo  
site has Seam integration docs, which Jay was going to update the sfwk  
pages to link to. We can certainly integrate a community contribution  
to our docs here :-)

>
>
> -Dan
>
> -- 
> Dan Allen
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