Bogdan Gusiev's blog

JBoss Seam usage makes the application code crazy!

04 May 2009

Seam Application has a number of good innovations but let's find out if we lose some advantages that we had before. I started application development with JBoss Seam one year ago. With the code base growth I have had more and more problems in workflow development .

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I noticed that there are many problems which we have not had before, for example:

• Utility methods calls are not straight and clear now.
• Find all usages IDE has feature became useless because of mass EL calls.
• There is much of the meta programming in such a severe OOP language as Java.
• It is impossible to debug JSF templates
• Seam Exceptions look so unclear.

Programming with Seam has all disadvantages of script languages like PHP or Ruby. I definitely admit that some features like Conversations and Native AJAX support made a big step forward. There is a lot of information in the net about How cool is seam but I tried to reveal the underside.

Think twice before switching to Seam.

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