Design Overview

This area of the wiki is used to host design documents for Seam enhancements and refactorings.

Seam 3

See the Seam 3 section.

Proposed changes to JSRs

• Proposals for JSF 2.1
• Proposals for Unified EL

seam-gen

• seam-gen feature set - the current set of features provided by seam-gen
• Encore - documents the initiative to redesign seam-gen bet365
• Testing seam-gen - steps to consider when testing seam-gen

Christian's HTTP related stuff

• HTTP client-server optimization strategies (or: make your web application faster)
• RESTful applications with Seam
• Three-tier applications with Seam

JSF Enhancements (2.1 and beyond)

• View Actions
• Default Time Zone
• Generic subtree validation
• Multi-component validation
• Component referencing

Exception handling guidelines

A catalog of exception handling guidelines originally put forth by Christian on the seam-dev mailinglist.

1. Never swallow an exception
2. Never try to do anything after an exception but exception handling
3. Never log and handle an exception, do one or the other
4. Provide contextual information to the exception handler enabling user to reproduce exception scenario