Building Seam 2.0 Application with NetBeans 6.1(Maven2)

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Building
Seam 2.0 Application with NetBeans 6.1(Maven2)

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Table
of Contents

Introduction 1

Prerequisites 2

Seam
glimpse 2

Set
up SeamMaven application 3

Create
Projects 3

pom.xml
of SeamMaven 3

pom.xml
of SeamMaven-ear 4

pom.xml
of SeamMaven-ejb 5

pom.xml
of SeamMaven-war 10

Application
related configurations and sources 13

The
End.... 13

References 14

Introduction

This
article depicts how to build a simple registration application
base on JBoss Seam 2.0(JSF with Facelets, EJB3, JPA) using NetBeans
6.1, and deploys it on Glassfish v2, MySQL 5.1.

To
the demonstration building, I divide the its content into two ways:

Using
NetBeans built-in project wizard to create a enterprise
application, which includes a ejb project and a web project. You
can get the details here.

Using
Maven for NetBeans plugin to create a enterprise application,
also it includes a ejb project and a web project. This entry will
use this way to build the sample application.

All
of these, will deploy on Glassfish V2 and use MySQL 5.1 community
edition. As I
mentioned formerly, this demo using Facelets framework for JSF view
definition, the most important thing is it setup with NetBeans IDE
with Maven2 support and deploys on Glassfish v2. Although you maybe
refer to jee-booking example in JBoss Seam tutorial, there are some
practical issues you will occur. So, Just follow me! :-)

Prerequisites

JavaEE
Programming(JSF, EJB3, JPA)

Usage of
NetBeans IDE 6.1 with Maven2

JBoss Seam Framework 2.0

Facelets

In
this sample application, I use Facelets as JSF view definition
framework, it is a very elegant presentation for JSF.

Seam
glimpse

As
we known, Seam is a powerful open source development platform for
building rich Internet applications in Java. Seam integrates
technologies such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX),
JavaServer Faces (JSF), Java Persistence (JPA), Enterprise Java Beans
(EJB 3.0) and Business Process Management (BPM) into a unified
full-stack solution, complete with sophisticated tooling. The simple
chart of architectural design will show you about this:



The
following demonstration will show you a part of features Seam
brought.

Set up SeamMaven application

In
this section, I will mention some important notices of creating seam
application using NetBeans IDE with Maven.

Create
Projects

Open
NetBeans IDE, and create a maven application project, named
SeamMaven. Changes the packing to
pom. Creates three maven application project in SeamMaven root
directory, named SeamMaven-ear, SeamMaven-ejb, SeamMaven-war,
respectively. And, changes the packing
to ear, ejb, war correspondingly.

pom.xml of SeamMaven

Modify your
pom.xml like this:

<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>

<artifactId>SeamMaven</artifactId>

<packaging>pom</packaging>

<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<name>SeamMaven</name>

<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

<modules>

<module>SeamMaven-ejb</module>

<module>SeamMaven-war</module>

<module>SeamMaven-ear</module>

</modules>

<build>

<plugins>

<plugin>

<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>

<version>2.0.2</version>

<configuration>

<source>1.6</source>

<target>1.6</target>

</configuration>

</plugin>

</plugins>

</build>

<repositories>

<repository>

<id>repository.jboss.org</id>

<name>JBoss
Repository</name>

<url>http://repository.jboss.org/maven2</url>

</repository>

<repository>

<id>maven.search</id>

<name>Maven
Search Org</name>

<url>http://www.mvnsearch.org/maven2</url>

</repository>

<repository>

<id>maven.java.net</id>

<name>Java.net
Maven2 Repository</name>

<url>http://download.java.net/maven/2</url>

</repository>

</repositories>

</project>

pom.xml of SeamMaven-ear

Modify your
pom.xml like this:

<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project>

<parent>

<artifactId>SeamMaven</artifactId>

<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>

<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

</parent>

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>

<artifactId>SeamMaven-ear</artifactId>

<name>SeamMaven-ear</name>

<packaging>ear</packaging>

<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

<dependencies>

<!--
JBoss Seam -->

<dependency>

<groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>

<artifactId>jboss-seam</artifactId>

<version>2.0.3.CR1</version>

<type>ejb</type>

</dependency>

<!-- Our
EJB module & WAR module -->

<dependency>

<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>

<artifactId>SeamMaven-ejb</artifactId>

<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<type>ejb</type>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>

<artifactId>SeamMaven-war</artifactId>

<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<type>war</type>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

<build>

<plugins>

<!--
Glassfish deployment -->

<plugin>

<groupId>org.glassfish.maven.plugin</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-glassfish-plugin</artifactId>

<version>2.1</version>

<executions>

<execution>

<goals>

<goal>deploy</goal>

</goals>

</execution>

</executions>

<configuration>

<glassfishDirectory>/home/daniel/Work/glassfish-v2ur2/</glassfishDirectory>

<user>admin</user>

<passwordFile>/home/daniel/.asadminpass</passwordFile>

<autoCreate>true</autoCreate>

<echo>true</echo>

<terse>true</terse>

<debug>false</debug>

<domain>

<name>domain1</name>

<adminPort>4848</adminPort>

<httpPort>8080</httpPort>

</domain>

<components>

<component>

<name>${artifactId}</name>

<artifact>target/${artifactId}-${version}.${packaging}</artifact>

</component>

</components>

</configuration>

</plugin>

</plugins>

</build>

</project>

Notice:
pay more attention on the contents between <build> and
</build>. In the section, I use a maven plugin to deploy
application into Glassfish. Optionally, you can use other plugin for
deployment, such as exec
to
invoke Glassfish administration console asadmin.

pom.xml of SeamMaven-ejb

Modify
your pom.xml like this:

<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project>

<parent>

<artifactId>SeamMaven</artifactId>

<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>

<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

</parent>

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>

<artifactId>SeamMaven-ejb</artifactId>

<name>SeamMaven-ejb</name>

<packaging>ejb</packaging>

<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

<dependencies>

<!--
JBoss Seam -->

<dependency>

<groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>

<artifactId>jboss-seam</artifactId>

<version>2.0.3.CR1</version>

<exclusions>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>el-api</artifactId>

<groupId>javax.el</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>jboss-el</artifactId>

<groupId>org.jboss.el</groupId>

</exclusion>

</exclusions>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>jboss</groupId>

<artifactId>jboss-common-core</artifactId>

<version>2.0.4.GA</version>

<exclusions>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>jboss-common-logging-spi</artifactId>

<groupId>jboss</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>webdavlib</artifactId>

<groupId>apache-slide</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>

<groupId>apache-httpclient</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>

<groupId>apache-xerces</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>concurrent</artifactId>

<groupId>oswego-concurrent</groupId>

</exclusion>

</exclusions>

</dependency>

<!--
JavaEE -->

<dependency>

<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>

<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>

<version>1.2_08</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>javax.ejb</groupId>

<artifactId>ejb-api</artifactId>

<version>3.0</version>

<scope>provided</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>javax.persistence</groupId>

<artifactId>persistence-api</artifactId>

<version>1.0</version>

</dependency>

<!--
Hibernate -->

<dependency>

<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>

<artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>

<version>3.2.6.ga</version>

<exclusions>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>

<groupId>dom4j</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>jta</artifactId>

<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>asm-attrs</artifactId>

<groupId>asm</groupId>

</exclusion>

</exclusions>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>

<artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>

<version>3.3.1.GA</version>

<exclusions>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>ejb3-persistence</artifactId>

<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>

</exclusion>

</exclusions>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>

<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>

<version>3.0.0.GA</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>

<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>

<version>3.3.2.GA</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>

<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>

<version>3.3.0.ga</version>

</dependency>

<!--
Other the third-party libs -->

<dependency>

<groupId>concurrent</groupId>

<artifactId>concurrent</artifactId>

<version>1.3.4</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>javassist</groupId>

<artifactId>javassist</artifactId>

<version>3.3.GA</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>dom4j</groupId>

<artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>

<version>1.6.1</version>

<exclusions>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>

<groupId>xml-apis</groupId>

</exclusion>

</exclusions>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>asm</groupId>

<artifactId>asm</artifactId>

<version>1.5.3</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>antlr</groupId>

<artifactId>antlr</artifactId>

<version>2.7.6</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>cglib</groupId>

<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>

<version>2.1_3</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>

<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>

<version>1.1</version>

<exclusions>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>avalon-framework</artifactId>

<groupId>avalon-framework</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>

<groupId>log4j</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>logkit</artifactId>

<groupId>logkit</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>

<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>

</exclusion>

</exclusions>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>

<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>

<version>3.0</version>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

<build>

<plugins>

<plugin>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-ejb-plugin</artifactId>

<configuration>

<ejbVersion>3.0</ejbVersion>

</configuration>

</plugin>

</plugins>

<finalName>SeamMaven-ejb</finalName>

</build>

<properties>

<netbeans.hint.deploy.server>J2EE</netbeans.hint.deploy.server>

</properties>

</project>

pom.xml of SeamMaven-war

Modify your pom.xml
like this:

<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project>

<parent>

<artifactId>SeamMaven</artifactId>

<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>

<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

</parent>

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>

<artifactId>SeamMaven-war</artifactId>

<packaging>war</packaging>

<name>SeamMaven-war</name>

<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

<build>

<finalName>SeamMaven-war</finalName>

</build>

<dependencies>

<dependency>

<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>

<artifactId>SeamMaven-ejb</artifactId>

<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<type>ejb</type>

<exclusions>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>antlr</artifactId>

<groupId>antlr</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>asm</artifactId>

<groupId>asm</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>

<groupId>cglib</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>

<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>

<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>concurrent</artifactId>

<groupId>concurrent</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>

<groupId>dom4j</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>ehcache</artifactId>

<groupId>net.sf.ehcache</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>ejb3-persistence</artifactId>

<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>

<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>

<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>persistence-api</artifactId>

<groupId>javax.persistence</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>

<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>jboss-common-core</artifactId>

<groupId>jboss</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>

<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>

<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>javassist</artifactId>

<groupId>javassist</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>

<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>jboss-seam</artifactId>

<groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>

</exclusion>

</exclusions>

</dependency>

<!--
JBoss Seam UI && EL-->

<dependency>

<groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>

<artifactId>jboss-seam-ui</artifactId>

<version>2.0.3.CR1</version>

<exclusions>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>

<groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>

<groupId>dom4j</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>jboss-seam</artifactId>

<groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>

</exclusion>

</exclusions>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.jboss.el</groupId>

<artifactId>jboss-el</artifactId>

<version>2.0.1.GA</version>

<exclusions>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>el-api</artifactId>

<groupId>javax.el</groupId>

</exclusion>

</exclusions>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>

<artifactId>jboss-seam</artifactId>

<version>2.0.3.CR1</version>

<exclusions>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>

<groupId>dom4j</groupId>

</exclusion>

<exclusion>

<artifactId>javassist</artifactId>

<groupId>javassist</groupId>

</exclusion>

</exclusions>

</dependency>

<!--
Facelets -->

<dependency>

<groupId>com.sun.facelets</groupId>

<artifactId>jsf-facelets</artifactId>

<version>1.1.9</version>

</dependency>

<!-- JSF
Implementation -->

<!--

<dependency>

<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>

<artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>

<version>1.2_08</version>

</dependency>

-->

</dependencies>

<properties>

<netbeans.hint.deploy.server>J2EE</netbeans.hint.deploy.server>

</properties>

</project>

Application related configurations and sources

These JavaEE application related
configuration files, like ejb-jar.xml, persistence.xml, web.xml
faces-config.xml and JBoss Seam application related configuration
files, like components.xml, pages.xml and project code sources you
can find here.

The End....

In this article, I introduce the basic configurations of an JBoss
Seam 2 application, how to build it with NetBeans IDE and maven, and
deploy it on Glassfish V2. If you will create your own seam
application, the important is the various of configuration files and
library dependencies. I think, we should pay more attention on them,
and configure them carefully.

Here,
you can download the whole sample application and the PDF document of
this article.

References

Apache
Maven

Glassfish
Maven plugin

Seam
Refresh

Carol
McDonald's Blog

Seam
Tutorial

Glassfish
and Seam Tips

JBoss
Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java book

Java
BluePrints Solutions Catalog for the Java Persistence APIs
contains a collection of topics and example applications.

Java
Persistence reference page on GlassFish Project

Java
EE tutorial, for good tutorial on JSF and JPA

Pro
EJB 3: Java Persistence API book