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 is an open source advocate, community catalyst, software generalist, author and speaker. Most of the time, he's hacking using some JVM language. He leads the Asciidoctor project and serves as the community liaison for Arquillian. He builds on these experiences to help make a variety of open source projects wildly successful, including Asciidoctor, Arquillian, Opal and JBoss Forge.
Dan is the author of Seam in Action (Manning, 2008) and has written articles for NFJS, the Magazine, IBM developerWorks, Java Tech Journal and JAXenter. He's also an internationally recognized speaker, having presented at major software conferences including JavaOne, Devoxx, NFJS, UberConf, RWX, JAX and jFokus. He's recognized as a JavaOne Rock Star and Java (JVM) Champion.
After a long conference day, you'll likely find Dan geeking out about technology, documentation and testing with fellow community members over a Trappist beer or Kentucky Bourbon.
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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.
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