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Seam & RESTEasy: You haven't seen REST yet
JSR-311 (JAX-RS) is one of the simplest, most elegant of all the Java EE specifications and is showing early signs of becoming an overwhelming success. It lets you to create RESTful web services from existing Java EE components by sprinkling a handful of annotations over it. But the downside is that the resource must be a Java EE component. Seam's RESTEasy module allows you to use JAX-RS annotations on your existing Seam components, giving your web services access to the Seam container and, dually, an alternate interface to your Seam application.
In this talk, you learn how you can use your Seam components as REST resources using the Seam RESTEasy module. The most obvious benefit is that you can create RESTful web services using a Seam component and get access to full Seam injection, security, persistence management, and so on. You almost forget that Seam eliminates the configuration required to add JAX-RS to your application. You'll be enthralled by the module's innovative approach to doing CRUD over REST that mimics Seam's CRUD framework for JSF-based UIs. Finally, you learn about some nice extras that Seam provides such as exception handling and integration with Seam security.
About Dan Allen
Dan Allen is a member of the Seam and Web Beans project teams at JBoss by Red Hat, author of Seam in Action and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences such as JavaOne, Devoxx, TSSJS, Jazoon and JSFOne. Dan is known for his passionate work, with nearly a decade of development experience using technologies that include Java frameworks (Seam, JSF, EJB3, Hibernate, Spring, Struts), testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG), JavaScript and DOM scripting, CSS and page layouts, Maven 2, Ant, Groovy, and many others.
Quickly after graduating from college, Dan became captivated by the world of free and open source software (FOSS). His involvment in FOSS helped him transition into the software development industry. He soon discovered the combination of Linux and the Java EE platform to be the ideal blend on which to build his professional career. In his search for a robust Web framework, Dan discovered JBoss Seam, which was quickly granted this most coveted spot in his development toolbox. The rest, as they say, is history. Dan is also a dedicated open source and Linux advocate and blogs about his experiences regularly. You can keep up with his discoveries by subscribing to his blog at http://mojavelinux.com.
About Lincoln Baxter III
Creator of PrettyFaces - Url Rewriting for JSF, PrettyTime - Social-style date & time formatting for Java, and a community contributor to the JSF2 Expert Group; his latest project is ScrumShark, an open-source agile project management tool.
Beginning his career in C, C++ development for hardware signal testing automation, Lincoln soon moved on to Perl, dynamic programming languages, artificial intelligence and, more recently - web application frameworks such as Java Server Faces and Groovy on Grails for financial and small business solutions.
When he is not swimming, running, or playing Ultimate Frisbee, Lincoln is focused on improving the openness of Java, the Java Community Process(JCP), and bringing the J2EE platform to small businesses and freelancers.
