Say you want to build a web application and you want to use Seam for integrating standard technologies like JSF and EJB. Furthermore, you want to use the power of Maven to build your project for different environments, on different systems (like you continuous build system) and use its' rich reporting features to get an overview of the code quality of your project. And of course you want to use a good IDE, like Eclipse with JBoss tools to aid you in development. How does one go about setting up all these things?
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Validations are a huge part of any software development. We need to validate that the data being entered from the UI is correct i.e of correct type or we are not leaving a notNull/notEmpty fields to be blank. There are so many ways to fulfill these requirements and we can have UI level validations or persistence level validations.

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Tags: Ajax, Hibernate Validation, JSF, Seam
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In this article we will basically try to understand the basic difference between different ways in which we can do Seam application development. So before we get into details, let have a brief introduction about Seam

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SeamTest is a class we extend for the tests we write in our Seam application. It provides the seam environment in tests something analogous to WicketTester in Wicket Application.
I want to share some information on setting the property of Session bean, i came to know while using the SeamTest.
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