Chapter 21. Configuring Seam and packaging Seam applications - JBoss Seam 1.2.0 正式版英文参考手册
Configuration is a very boring topic and an extremely tedious pastime. Unfortunately, several lines of XML are required to integrate Seam into your JSF implementation and servlet container. There's no need to be too put off by the following sections; you'll never need to type any of this stuff yourself, since you can just copy and paste from the example applications!
First, let's look at the basic configuration that is needed whenever we use Seam with JSF.
Seam requires the following entry in your web.xml file:
<listener>
<listener-class>org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamListener</listener-class>
</listener>This listener is responsible for bootstrapping Seam, and for destroying session and application contexts.
To integrate with the JSF request lifecycle, we also need a JSF PhaseListener registered in in the faces-config.xml file:
<lifecycle>
<phase-listener>org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener</phase-listener>
</lifecycle>The actual listener class here varies depending upon how you want to manage transaction demarcation (more on this below).
If you are using Sun's JSF 1.2 reference implementation, you should also add this to faces-config.xml:
<application>
<el-resolver>org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamELResolver</el-resolver>
</application>(This line should not strictly speaking be necessary, but it works around a minor bug in the RI.)
Some JSF implementations have a broken implementation of server-side state saving that interferes with Seam's conversation propagation. If you have problems with conversation propagation during form submissions, try switching to client-side state saving. You'll need this in web.xml:
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
<param-value>client</param-value>
</context-param>Seam doesn't need any servlet filters for basic operation. However, there are several features which depend upon the use of filters. To make things easier for you guys, Seam lets you add and configure servlet filters just like you would configure other built-in Seam components. To take advantage of this feature, we must first install a master filter in web.xml:
<filter>
<filter-name>Seam Filter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>Seam Filter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>Adding the master filter enables the following built-in filters.
This filter provides the exception mapping functionality in pages.xml (almost all applications will need this). It also takes care of rolling back uncommitted transactions when uncaught exceptions occur. (According to the Java EE specification, the web container should do this automatically, but we've found that this behavior cannot be relied upon in all application servers. And it is certainly not required of plain servlet engines like Tomcat.)
By default, the exception handling filter will process all requests, however this behavior may be adjusted by adding a <web:exception-filter> entry to components.xml, as shown in this example:
<components xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/components"
xmlns:core="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core"
xmlns:web="http://jboss.com/products/seam/web"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation=
"http://jboss.com/products/seam/core http://jboss.com/products/seam/core-1.2.xsd
http://jboss.com/products/seam/components http://jboss.com/products/seam/components-1.2.xsd
http://jboss.com/products/seam/web http://jboss.com/products/seam/web-1.2.xsd">
<web:exception-filter url-pattern="*.seam"/>
</components>url-pattern — Used to specify which requests are filtered, the default is all requests.
This filter allows Seam to propagate the conversation context across browser redirects. It intercepts any browser redirects and adds a request parameter that specifies the Seam conversation identifier.
The redirect filter will process all requests by default, but this behavior can also be adjusted in components.xml:
<web:redirect-filter url-pattern="*.seam"/>
url-pattern — Used to specify which requests are filtered, the default is all requests.
This feature is necessary when using the Seam file upload JSF control. It detects multipart form requests and processes them according to the multipart/form-data specification (RFC-2388). To override the default settings, add the following entry to components.xml:
<web:multipart-filter create-temp-files="true"
max-request-size="1000000"
url-pattern="*.seam"/>create-temp-files — If set to true, uploaded files are written to a temporary file (instead of held in memory). This may be an important consideration if large file uploads are expected. The default setting is false.
max-request-size — If the size of a file upload request (determined by reading the Content-Length header in the request) exceeds this value, the request will be aborted. The default setting is 0 (no size limit).
url-pattern — Used to specify which requests are filtered, the default is all requests.
Sets the character encoding of submitted form data.
This filter is not installed by default and requires an entry in components.xml to enable it:
<web:character-encoding-filter encoding="UTF-16"
override-client="true"
url-pattern="*.seam"/>encoding — The encoding to use.
override-client — If this is set to true, the request encoding will be set to whatever is specified by encoding no matter whether the request already specifies an encoding or not. If set to false, the request encoding will only be set if the request doesn't already specify an encoding. The default setting is false.
url-pattern — Used to specify which requests are filtered, the default is all requests.
Requests sent direct to some servlet other than the JSF servlet are not processed through the JSF lifecycle, so Seam provides a servlet filter that can be applied to any other servlet that needs access to Seam components.
This filter allows custom servlets to interact with the Seam contexts. It sets up the Seam contexts at the beginning of each request, and tears them down at the end of the request. You should make sure that this filter is never applied to the JSF FacesServlet. Seam uses the phase listener for context management in a JSF request.
This filter is not installed by default and requires an entry in components.xml to enable it:
<web:context-filter url-pattern="/media/*"/>
url-pattern — Used to specify which requests are filtered, the default is all requests. If the url-pattern is specified for the context filter, then the filter will be enabled (unless explicitly disabled).
The context filter expects to find the conversation id of any conversation context in a request parameter named conversationId. You are responsible for ensuring that it gets sent in the request.
You are also responsible for ensuring propagation of any new conversation id back to the client. Seam exposes the conversation id as a property of the built in component conversation.
We need to apply the SeamInterceptor to our Seam components. The simplest way to do this is to add the following interceptor binding to the <assembly-descriptor> in ejb-jar.xml:
<interceptor-binding>
<ejb-name>*</ejb-name>
<interceptor-class>org.jboss.seam.ejb.SeamInterceptor</interceptor-class>
</interceptor-binding>Seam needs to know where to go to find session beans in JNDI. One way to do this is specify the @JndiName annotation on every session bean Seam component. However, this is quite tedious. A better approach is to specify a pattern that Seam can use to calculate the JNDI name from the EJB name. Unfortunately, there is no standard mapping to global JNDI defined in the EJB3 specification, so this mapping is vendor-specific. We usually specify this option in components.xml.
For JBoss AS, the following pattern is correct:
<core:init jndi-name="myEarName/#{ejbName}/local" />Where myEarName is the name of the EAR in which the bean is deployed.
Outside the context of an EAR (when using the JBoss Embeddable EJB3 container), the following pattern is the one to use:
<core:init jndi-name="#{ejbName}/local" />You'll have to experiment to find the right setting for other application servers. Note that some servers (such as GlassFish) require you to specify JNDI names for all EJB components explicitly (and tediously). In this case, you can pick your own pattern ;-)
If you want follow our advice and use facelets instead of JSP, add the following lines to faces-config.xml:
<application>
<view-handler>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</view-handler>
</application>And the following lines to web.xml:
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
<param-value>.xhtml</param-value>
</context-param>There is one final item you need to know about. You must place a seam.properties, META-INF/seam.properties or META-INF/components.xml file in any archive in which your Seam components are deployed (even an empty properties file will do). At startup, Seam will scan any archives with seam.properties files for seam components.
That's why all the Seam examples have an empty seam.properties file. You can't just delete this file and expect everything to still work!
You might think this is silly and what kind of idiot framework designers would make an empty file affect the behavior of their software?? Well, this is a workaround for a limitation of the JVM—if we didn't use this mechanism, our next best option would be to force you to list every component explicitly in components.xml, just like some other competing frameworks do! I think you'll like our way better.
If you're running in a Java EE 5 environment, this is all the configuration required to start using Seam!
Once you've packaged all this stuff together into an EAR, the archive structure will look something like this:
my-application.ear/
jboss-seam.jar
el-api.jar
el-ri.jar
META-INF/
MANIFEST.MF
application.xml
my-application.war/
META-INF/
MANIFEST.MF
WEB-INF/
web.xml
components.xml
faces-config.xml
lib/
jsf-facelets.jar
jboss-seam-ui.jar
login.jsp
register.jsp
...
my-application.jar/
META-INF/
MANIFEST.MF
persistence.xml
seam.properties
org/
jboss/
myapplication/
User.class
Login.class
LoginBean.class
Register.class
RegisterBean.class
...You must include jboss-seam.jar, el-api.jar and el-ri.jar in the EAR classpath. Make sure you reference all of these jars from application.xml.
If you want to use jBPM or Drools, you must include the needed jars in the EAR classpath. Make sure you reference all of the jars from application.xml.
If you want to use facelets (our recommendation), you must include jsf-facelets.jar in the WEB-INF/lib directory of the WAR.
If you want to use the Seam tag library (most Seam applications do), you must include jboss-seam-ui.jar in the WEB-INF/lib directory of the WAR. If you want to use the PDF or email tag libraries, you need to put jboss-seam-pdf.jar or jboss-seam-mail.jar in WEB-INF/lib.
If you want to use the Seam debug page (only works for applications using facelets), you must include jboss-seam-debug.jar in the WEB-INF/lib directory of the WAR.
Seam ships with several example applications that are deployable in any Java EE container that supports EJB 3.0.
I really wish that was all there was to say on the topic of configuration but unfortunately we're only about a third of the way there. If you're too overwhelmed by all this tedious configuration stuff, feel free to skip over the rest of this section and come back to it later.
The JBoss Embeddable EJB3 container lets you run EJB3 components outside the context of the Java EE 5 application server. This is especially, but not only, useful for testing.
The Seam booking example application includes a TestNG integration test suite that runs on the Embeddable EJB3 container.
The booking example application may even be deployed to Tomcat.
Seam ships with a build of the Embeddable EJB3 container in the embedded-ejb directory. To use the Embeddable EJB3 container with Seam, add the embedded-ejb/conf directory, and all jars in the lib and embedded-ejb/lib directories to your classpath. Then, add the following line to components.xml:
<core:ejb />
This setting installs the built-in component named org.jboss.seam.core.ejb. This component is responsible for bootstrapping the EJB container when Seam is started, and shutting it down when the web application is undeployed.
You should refer to the Embeddable EJB3 container documentation for more information about configuring the container. You'll probably at least need to set up your own datasource. Embeddable EJB3 is implemented using the JBoss Microcontainer, so it's very easy to add new services to the minimal set of services provided by default. For example, I can add a new datasource by putting this jboss-beans.xml file in my classpath:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deployment xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:jboss:bean-deployer bean-deployer_1_0.xsd"
xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer">
<bean name="bookingDatasourceBootstrap"
class="org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.local.LocalTxDataSource">
<property name="driverClass">org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver</property>
<property name="connectionURL">jdbc:hsqldb:.</property>
<property name="userName">sa</property>
<property name="jndiName">java:/bookingDatasource</property>
<property name="minSize">0</property>
<property name="maxSize">10</property>
<property name="blockingTimeout">1000</property>
<property name="idleTimeout">100000</property>
<property name="transactionManager">
<inject bean="TransactionManager"/>
</property>
<property name="cachedConnectionManager">
<inject bean="CachedConnectionManager"/>
</property>
<property name="initialContextProperties">
<inject bean="InitialContextProperties"/>
</property>
</bean>
<bean name="bookingDatasource" class="java.lang.Object">
<constructor factoryMethod="getDatasource">
<factory bean="bookingDatasourceBootstrap"/>
</constructor>
</bean>
</deployment>The archive structure of a WAR-based deployment on an servlet engine like Tomcat will look something like this:
my-application.war/
META-INF/
MANIFEST.MF
WEB-INF/
web.xml
components.xml
faces-config.xml
lib/
jboss-seam.jar
jboss-seam-ui.jar
el-api.jar
el-ri.jar
jsf-facelets.jar
myfaces-api.jar
myfaces-impl.jar
jboss-ejb3.jar
jboss-jca.jar
jboss-j2ee.jar
...
mc-conf.jar/
ejb3-interceptors-aop.xml
embedded-jboss-beans.xml
default.persistence.properties
jndi.properties
login-config.xml
security-beans.xml
log4j.xml
my-application.jar/
META-INF/
MANIFEST.MF
persistence.xml
jboss-beans.xml
log4j.xml
seam.properties
org/
jboss/
myapplication/
User.class
Login.class
LoginBean.class
Register.class
RegisterBean.class
...
login.jsp
register.jsp
...The mc-conf.jar just contains the standard JBoss Microcontainer configuration files for Embeddable EJB3. You won't usually need to edit these files yourself.
Most of the Seam example applications may be deployed to Tomcat by running ant deploy.tomcat.
Seam is useful even if you're not yet ready to take the plunge into EJB 3.0. In this case you would use Hibernate3 or JPA instead of EJB 3.0 persistence, and plain JavaBeans instead of session beans. You'll miss out on some of the nice features of session beans but it will be very easy to migrate to EJB 3.0 when you're ready and, in the meantime, you'll be able to take advantage of Seam's unique declarative state management architecture.
Seam JavaBean components do not provide declarative transaction demarcation like session beans do. You could manage your transactions manually using the JTA UserTransaction (you could even implement your own declarative transaction management in a Seam interceptor). But most applications will use Seam managed transactions when using Hibernate with JavaBeans. Follow the instructions in the persistence chapter to install TransactionalSeamPhaseListener.
The Seam distribution includes a version of the booking example application that uses Hibernate3 and JavaBeans instead of EJB3, and another version that uses JPA and JavaBeans. These example applications are ready to deploy into any J2EE application server.
Seam will bootstrap a Hibernate SessionFactory from your hibernate.cfg.xml file if you install a built-in component:
<core:hibernate-session-factory name="hibernateSessionFactory"/>
You will also need to configure a managed session if you want a Seam managed Hibernate Session to be available via injection.
Seam will bootstrap a JPA EntityManagerFactory from your persistence.xml file if you install this built-in component:
<core:entity-manager-factory name="entityManagerFactory"/>
You will also need to configure a managed persistencece context if you want a Seam managed JPA EntityManager to be available via injection.
We can package our application as a WAR, in the following structure:
my-application.war/
META-INF/
MANIFEST.MF
WEB-INF/
web.xml
components.xml
faces-config.xml
lib/
jboss-seam.jar
jboss-seam-ui.jar
el-api.jar
el-ri.jar
jsf-facelets.jar
hibernate3.jar
hibernate-annotations.jar
...
my-application.jar/
META-INF/
MANIFEST.MF
seam.properties
hibernate.cfg.xml
org/
jboss/
myapplication/
User.class
Login.class
Register.class
...
login.jsp
register.jsp
...If we want to deploy Hibernate in a non-J2EE environment like Tomcat or TestNG, we need to do a little bit more work.
The Seam support for Hibernate and JPA requires JTA and a JCA datasource. If you are running in a non-EE environment like Tomcat or TestNG you can run these services, and Hibernate itself, in the JBoss Microcontainer.
You can even deploy the Hibernate and JPA versions of the booking example in Tomcat.
Seam ships with an example Microcontainer configuration in microcontainer/conf/jboss-beans.xml that provides all the things you need to run Seam with Hibernate in any non-EE environment. Just add the microcontainer/conf directory, and all jars in the lib and microcontainer/lib directories to your classpath. Refer to the documentation for the JBoss Microcontainer for more information.
The built-in Seam component named org.jboss.seam.core.microcontainer bootstraps the microcontainer. As before, we probably want to use a Seam managed session.
<core:microcontainer/>
<core:managed-hibernate-session name="bookingDatabase" auto-create="true"
session-factory-jndi-name="java:/bookingSessionFactory"/>Where java:/bookingSessionFactory is the name of the Hibernate session factory specified in hibernate.cfg.xml.
You'll need to provide a jboss.beans.xml file that installs JNDI, JTA, your JCA datasource and Hibernate into the microcontainer:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deployment xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:jboss:bean-deployer bean-deployer_1_0.xsd"
xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer">
<bean name="Naming" class="org.jnp.server.SingletonNamingServer"/>
<bean name="TransactionManagerFactory" class="org.jboss.seam.microcontainer.TransactionManagerFactory"/>
<bean name="TransactionManager" class="java.lang.Object">
<constructor factoryMethod="getTransactionManager">
<factory bean="TransactionManagerFactory"/>
</constructor>
</bean>
<bean name="bookingDatasourceFactory" class="org.jboss.seam.microcontainer.DataSourceFactory">
<property name="driverClass">org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver</property>
<property name="connectionUrl">jdbc:hsqldb:.</property>
<property name="userName">sa</property>
<property name="jndiName">java:/hibernateDatasource</property>
<property name="minSize">0</property>
<property name="maxSize">10</property>
<property name="blockingTimeout">1000</property>
<property name="idleTimeout">100000</property>
<property name="transactionManager"><inject bean="TransactionManager"/></property>
</bean>
<bean name="bookingDatasource" class="java.lang.Object">
<constructor factoryMethod="getDataSource">
<factory bean="bookingDatasourceFactory"/>
</constructor>
</bean>
<bean name="bookingSessionFactoryFactory" class="org.jboss.seam.microcontainer.HibernateFactory"/>
<bean name="bookingSessionFactory" class="java.lang.Object">
<constructor factoryMethod="getSessionFactory">
<factory bean="bookingSessionFactoryFactory"/>
</constructor>
<depends>bookingDatasource</depends>
</bean>
</deployment>The WAR could have the following structure:
my-application.war/
META-INF/
MANIFEST.MF
WEB-INF/
web.xml
components.xml
faces-config.xml
lib/
jboss-seam.jar
jboss-seam-ui.jar
el-api.jar
el-ri.jar
jsf-facelets.jar
hibernate3.jar
...
jboss-microcontainer.jar
jboss-jca.jar
...
myfaces-api.jar
myfaces-impl.jar
mc-conf.jar/
jndi.properties
log4j.xml
my-application.jar/
META-INF/
MANIFEST.MF
jboss-beans.xml
seam.properties
hibernate.cfg.xml
log4j.xml
org/
jboss/
myapplication/
User.class
Login.class
Register.class
...
login.jsp
register.jsp
...Seam's jBPM integration is not installed by default, so you'll need to enable jBPM by installing a built-in component. You'll also need to explicitly list your process and pageflow definitions. In components.xml:
<core:jbpm>
<core:pageflow-definitions>
<value>createDocument.jpdl.xml</value>
<value>editDocument.jpdl.xml</value>
<value>approveDocument.jpdl.xml</value>
</core:pageflow-definitions>
<core:process-definitions>
<value>documentLifecycle.jpdl.xml</value>
</core:process-definitions>
</core:jbpm>No further special configuration is needed if you only have pageflows. If you do have business process definitions, you need to provide a jBPM configuration, and a Hibernate configuration for jBPM. The Seam DVD Store demo includes example jbpm.cfg.xml and hibernate.cfg.xml files that will work with Seam:
<jbpm-configuration>
<jbpm-context>
<service name="persistence">
<factory>
<bean class="org.jbpm.persistence.db.DbPersistenceServiceFactory">
<field name="isTransactionEnabled"><false/></field>
</bean>
</factory>
</service>
<service name="message" factory="org.jbpm.msg.db.DbMessageServiceFactory" />
<service name="scheduler" factory="org.jbpm.scheduler.db.DbSchedulerServiceFactory" />
<service name="logging" factory="org.jbpm.logging.db.DbLoggingServiceFactory" />
<service name="authentication" factory="org.jbpm.security.authentication.DefaultAuthenticationServiceFactory" />
</jbpm-context>
</jbpm-configuration>The most important thing to notice here is that jBPM transaction control is disabled. Seam or EJB3 should control the JTA transactions.
There is not yet any well-defined packaging format for jBPM configuration and process/pageflow definition files. In the Seam examples we've decided to simply package all these files into the root of the EAR. In future, we will probably design some other standard packaging format. So the EAR looks something like this:
my-application.ear/
jboss-seam.jar
el-api.jar
el-ri.jar
jbpm-3.1.jar
META-INF/
MANIFEST.MF
application.xml
my-application.war/
META-INF/
MANIFEST.MF
WEB-INF/
web.xml
components.xml
faces-config.xml
lib/
jsf-facelets.jar
jboss-seam-ui.jar
login.jsp
register.jsp
...
my-application.jar/
META-INF/
MANIFEST.MF
persistence.xml
seam.properties
org/
jboss/
myapplication/
User.class
Login.class
LoginBean.class
Register.class
RegisterBean.class
...
jbpm.cfg.xml
hibernate.cfg.xml
createDocument.jpdl.xml
editDocument.jpdl.xml
approveDocument.jpdl.xml
documentLifecycle.jpdl.xmlRemember to add jbpm-3.1.jar to the manifest of your EJB-JAR and WAR.
To run a Seam application as a portlet, you'll need to provide certain portlet metadata (portlet.xml, etc) in addition to the usual Java EE metadata. See the examples/portal directory for an example of the booking demo preconfigured to run on JBoss Portal.
In addition, you'll need to use a portlet-specific phase listener instead of SeamPhaseListener or TransactionalSeamPhaseListener. The SeamPortletPhaseListener and TransactionalSeamPortletPhaseListener are adapted to the portlet lifecycle. I would like to offer my sincerest apologies for the name of that last class. I really couldn't think of anything better. Sorry.