[seam-dev] Seam 2.1 branch

[Shane Bryzak]

Dan Allen wrote:
>
>
>     6. The booking example needs to be ported to run on JSR-299 (very
>     high priority).
>
>
> 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.

Anything I do with Maven is a "hack", as I'm still very much a Maven noob ;)
>
> 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.

Awesome, I'm currently working on porting the security module so I'll 
coordinate that with your progress on booking.
>
> 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.

A question for Max really - this is a good chance to fix up the 
structure if we need to.  One thing I'd like to see is WEB-INF moved out 
of resources and into the web (or whatever we call it) directory.
> 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
>
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