Advanced Topics

Abstract

Although I have called this chapter Advanced, do not be scared. This does not mean that this chapter is exponentially harder—in fact, I would argue that the preceding two chapters were probably the hardest to understand conceptually, because they presented ideas that most people do not work with on a daily basis. This chapter covers topics that are nice goodies to have in any web application: internationalization, Ajax, and security. It also covers web services, with a focus on RESTful web services. In addition, it covers Drools support and a new idea called themes. Ideas outlined here should help you make the most of Seam and to expand your web applications to be as dynamic as possible.