Flex and Seam

[pepeperez]

Do you think it may be possible to integrate Flex Data
Services with JBoss's Seam framework?



Thanks,



Pepe.

[Former Community Member]

Seam? sounds more like a competing framework trying to
implement data rich with ajax instead of flash. Also.. isn't JSF
part of Seam? Since JSF has its view on the server with all those
validation, UI component, etc.. It looks like you'd be shoe horning
Flex into an MVC that was designed to be page controller based,
with all the page refreshes of the early 2000 web era.



On the other hand.. if someone were to write a Flex render
kit, subclassing the UIComponents.. then maybe thats something
worth investigating?

[pepeperez]

> Seam?

Yes.



> It looks like you'd be shoe horning Flex into an MVC

> that was designed to be page controller based

JSF is a component based framework not an MVC framework a la
Struts.



> with all the page refreshes of the early 2000 web era.

In fact, Seam's livecycle is much near to Flex's that what at
first sight may seem.

Seam Remote, which is an AJAX remoting framework, allows to
call EJBs methods

directly from Javascript => no page refreshes.



What I was asking with this open question is if someone has
tried to develop an

EJB3Adapter or SeamAdapter that synchronizes the FDS
framework with the workflow part of Seam.



OTOH a JSF render kit for Flex, if something like that is
possible, would be a cool path to explore.



Regards,



Pepe.