Starting with Seam 2.0.1 (annoucement here, download here) you can fully use UrlRewriteFilter to make URLs in your Seam app nice and clean. When using this filter, you need to define inbound-rules, which translate your pretty URLs into Seam views, for example: /myapp/view/rice –> /myapp/view.seam?name=rice. Moreover, you can define outbound-rules,…

If you are developing anything with Facelets/Seam/… frameworks, you probably know the pain of having to redeploy after each .xhtml file change to see the changes, even if they are only cosmetic. I wrote about possible solutions for that problem earlier, but they didn’t quite work for facelets (more specifically,…

Seam in combination with JBoss Tools already has the features I wrote about some time ago (see here), unless, for example, you aren’t using Eclipse or you want to develop with Seam 2, which isn’t supported by JBoss Tools yet. That’s why the Resources Filter might be handy here too;…

While most of (web)applications communicate with the end user in English, a lot of them use native languages, which often have some special characters (not to look too far for an example, we have the Polish alphabet, with ą, ę, ś, etc). A widely accepted standard for coding such characters…