[weld-dev] JBoss Web Framework Kit and Seam

[Gavin King]

Arbi, this mailing list is for discussion of Weld and Seam  
development. Please don't post your questions here. Thanks

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On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:51 AM, Arbi Sookazian <asookazian at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> As if EE6 wasn't novel and confusing enough with the change of names  
> like Web Beans to CDI, EJB Lite and new web/full profiles concept,  
> etc.  Now we have some presumably new product offerings from JBoss:
>
> http://www.jboss.com/pdf/JBbyRH_WFK_Datasheet.pdf
>
> This one comes from out of nowhere: GWT, RichFaces, Struts, Spring,  
> but no Seam.  No Seam.  And I thought that RichFaces was an AJAX  
> component library for JSF.  But no mention of JSF in the datasheet.   
> Fantastic.
>
> Oh but wait....
>
> "Along with leading JBoss technologies Hibernate and Seam,
> JBoss Web Framework Kit will be included in Red Hat Java
> Enterprise Edition application server solutions, JBoss
> Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Enterprise Web
> Platform to provide a complete, integrated environment
> that supports any type of Java application. For deployments
> that use the Apache Tomcat component of JBoss
> Enterprise Web Server, JBoss Web Framework Kit can be
> easily added to help round out any lightweight Java application
> architecture."
>
> I thought EJB Lite and web profile in EE6 was "lightweight", no?  Or  
> not "light" enough?  Because Tomcat starts up so fast.
>
> So is JBoss/Redhat trying to gobble up some of SpringSource's  
> customers and market share and thus boost revenue?
>
> Seam can integrate with Spring as was shown in SiA book.  So why  
> isn't Seam included in this new JBoss WFK?
>
> And does Redhat JEE app server mean JBoss 6 AS?  And if yes, does  
> that mean JBoss 6 includes this WFK?  Is it available in the current  
> AS 6.0.0.M1 download?
>
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