The waiting is over. Seam 2.2 is now officially ready!
Seam 2.2.0.GA is largely a API bump, giving us a chance to upgrade Seam to the latest versions of a few libraries that are core to Seam. The largest is a bump to the entire Hibernate family of APIs - core 3.3.1, tools 3.2.4, entitymanager 3.4.0, annotations 3.4.0 and search 3.1.1. We've also moved our Drools support from Drools 4 to Drools 5. If the great new features of Drools 5 weren't enough, we've added a few new features to the drools integration: decision table support, Seam components as consequence exception handlers and Seam components as Drools event listeners.
If you are a JBoss AS user of Seam, we recommend you use JBoss AS 5.1 to make use of the new libraries. Running a Seam 2.2 on JBoss 4.2 may require adding these newer JARs to your application.
We are seeing some problems with hot-redeployment of Seam on JBoss AS 5.1. Take a look at this FAQ for more. We will update the FAQ and this blog once we have the issues fixed.
We've also put in some serious work towards making Seam work better for applications that deploy over multiple WAR files. If that's something you've been having issues with, we definitely recommend that you give Seam 2.2 a try.
As always, please ask questions in the forums and open issues in JIRA for confirmed bugs.
Just wondering why Hibernate 3.3.1 is used instead of Hibernate 3.3.2.
We didn't update versions between the CR and GA, which took a bit longer to get out than we would have liked. The point of the release was to move the the 3.3 line, and you are free to use any later hibernate release if you choose.
Also JBoss 5.1 is providing hibernate core 3.3.1, not 3.3.2 which was released later.
There is no documentation regarding multiple war files in ear...
how seam-gen is used for multiple war....
Is there any faq on multiple war in seam...It will be helpful....
Thanks, Sameer
Hello, I hope you can help me, I'm facing a situation in which I must deploy a Seam 2.2 app on a legacy JBoss 4 server (we normally use 5.1). Will it run on 4.0.5? Is it mandatory to have at least 4.2?
What JARs exactly should I copy and where?