Sorry for my silence. I have been translated "Seam in Action" into Korean for the last three months. It quite knocked me out and made me crazy.
Three employees who are related in JBoss took part in translation work. 'Seam in Action' in Korean will come out on Nov. 4 before Gavin King, founder of Hibernate and Seam, comes to Korea.
Below is Dan's greeting message to Korean developers. Dan Allen is the author of "Seam in Action".
Since Seam in Action was first published, I've been approached by many developers gushing with enthusiasm to share with me that my book has fundamentally changed their understanding of Seam. They reported that, as a result, they've witnessed a huge boost in their productivity. Their one regret: they didn't discover it sooner. Each time, all I can manage to say in return is, "That's exactly why I wrote this book." And that's why I want you to read it. I want you to receive the same benefits. I'm so grateful to Ji-Woong Choi and his colleagues for translating this text into Korean and beginning to diffuse the knowledge packed inside Seam in Action around the global.
I was a fairly early adopter of Seam and I immediately recognized it as the missing piece of Java EE. It patches many of the technical gaps in Java EE, such as invoking an EJB directly from JSF and properly managing the extended persistence context. But it also reveals a lot of academic gaps in developers' understanding of Java EE concepts and technologies.
When you learn Seam, you aren't just learning about this one framework, which is hard enough, but rather Java EE as a whole. That's why Seam can appear so daunting. With this delimma in mind, I wrote this book. It walks through the JSF life cycle and it's shortcomings. It explains how Facelets fits into the picture. It carefully molds your understanding of the persistence context and teaches you how to respect it properly. It demystifies EJB JNDI names and how Seam resolves them. Finally, with all of these core concepts covered, the book broadens your development skills by covering Seam's third party integrations with libraries such as iText for PDF generation and jBPM for business process management.
I believe it's because I was once in your position, a person trying to learn about all the pieces of Java EE and how Seam helps them fit together, that readers have found this book to be an invaluable resource. Take this book, now translated in your native language, and use it to learn how to drive your Seam applications further.
Dan Allen
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
