[snip]
Well from the small project I have done, you basically can take all your
JSF knowledge with you, Seam is an extension which simplifies many
things in JSF.
Yep ... like Shale, Seam is a layer of additional functionality built on top of JSF, not a separate framework that just happens to coexist with it.
For instance you do not define any backing beans in xml
anymore, just a class which you then annotation as session bean etc...
If you like that idea, but for some reason don't want to buy in to the whole Seam stack, Shale can do this now as well (in nightly builds) when you add the shale-tiger.jar library to your project. See the overall description of the Shale Tiger extensions[1], and the javadocs for annotated managed beans[2] for more info.
The hardest part of seam is to get the project structure and deployment
in place the rest is "seamless"
:-)
Craig
[1] http://struts.apache.org/struts-shale/features-tiger-extensions.html
[2] http://struts.apache.org/struts-shale/shale-tiger/apidocs/org/apache/shale/tiger/managed/package-summary.html
