[seam-dev] Re: Seam/RESTEasy integration

[Bill Burke]

Thanks for your hard work.

It would be very cool if we could get some kind of integration test 
within the RESTEasy project so I know I'm not breaking SPIs that Seam is 
dependent on.

Jozef Hartinger wrote:
> 
> 
> Christian Bauer wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Solomon Duskis <sduskis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Are you actively working on that integration?
>>
>> The integration work resulted in a preview release last summer, then
>> we waited for RE to stabilize and GA. I checked two weeks or so ago,
>> and Jozef  had already upgraded the Seam integration code to compile
>> and run against RE GA 1.0.
> That's right. I am trying to keep RESTEasy version in sync. We currently 
> have RESTEasy 1.0.1.GA in trunk
>>
>> There is a chapter in the Seam reference documentation that describes
>> the integration and features:
>> http://docs.jboss.com/seam/2.1.1.GA/reference/en-US/html/webservices.html#d0e21523 
>>
>>
>> The remaining issues range from trivial to major, however, there is
>> not much critical functionality missing. Jozef, are you aware of
>> anything that has not already been reported in JIRA?
> Well, as far as I remember all the bugs I have seen in forums, etc. are 
> in JIRA.
>>
>> We bundle these activities under the "WS" component in Seam JIRA:
>> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM/component/12310823
>>
>>> version of RESTEasy.  Do you have some time to help out with that, 
>>> and to
>>> point me in the right direction for the current Seam/RESTEasy code?
>>
>> The code is in Seam trunk which is the 2.1.x release line. So now that
>> RE GA is here we would certainly welcome any help on ironing out the
>> remaining issues. Have a look at the reported stuff in JIRA and see if
>> you like to pick something - even if it's assigned to me ;)
>>
>> I will go through the list again as well and see if there is anything
>> missing and maybe set some priorities. Jozef, let us know what your
>> status/plans are.
> I am working on Seam+RESTEasy integration as a part of my university 
> thesis. I am focusing more on new features rather than bug fixing as 
> this is more interesting for university however I was fixing some bugs 
> as well. The plan is to implement following things:
>     * REST API for application framework - I am working on a component 
> that exposes CRUD API to manipulate database entities (using Seam's home 
> and query components)- I have some working prototypes already, working 
> on details now.
>     * Exception mapping in pages.xml
>     * Facelets XHTML mapping
> Furthermore, I am planning on creating a sample application 
> demonstrating Seam+RESTEasy integration. It will be a simple todo app 
> exposing REST API.
> 
>>
>> For the future and more elaborate Seam/REST integration work: There
>> are some great ideas floating around, mostly things people have been
>> discussing directly or posting on some mailing list or another. My
>> opinion has been so far that we get the basic stuff working in Seam
>> 2.1.x and then wait for the Web Beans RI to stabilize and start with
>> the more advanced REST stuff (like XHTML representation mapping with
>> Facelets) in Seam 3.
> 

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