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Chapter 40. Dependencies

40.1. JDK Dependencies
40.1.1. Sun's JDK 6 Considerations
40.2. Project Dependencies
40.2.1. Core
40.2.2. RichFaces
40.2.3. Seam Mail
40.2.4. Seam PDF
40.2.5. Seam Microsoft® Excel®
40.2.6. Seam RSS support
40.2.7. JBoss Rules
40.2.8. JBPM
40.2.9. GWT
40.2.10. Spring
40.2.11. Groovy
40.3. Dependency Management using Maven

Seam does not work with JDK 1.4 and requires JDK 5 or above as it uses annotations and other JDK 5.0 features.. Seam has been thoroughly tested using Sun's JDKs. However there are no known issues specific to Seam with other JDK's.

This section both lists the compile-time and runtime dependencies for Seam. Where the type is listed as ear, the library should be included in the /lib directory of your application's ear file. Where the type is listed as war, the library should be placed in the /WEB-INF/lib directory of your application's war file. The scope of the dependency is either all, runtime or provided (by JBoss AS 4.2).

Up to date version information and complete dependency information is not included in the docs, but is provided in the /dependency-report.txt which is generated from the Maven POMs stored in /build. You can generate this file by running ant dependencyReport.

Maven offers support for transitive dependency management and can be used to manage the dependencies of your Seam project. You can use Maven Ant Tasks to integrate Maven into your Ant build, or can use Maven to build and deploy your project.

We aren't actually going to discuss how to use Maven here, but just run over some basic POMs you could use.

Released versions of Seam are available in http://repository.jboss.org/maven2 and nightly snapshots are available in http://snapshots.jboss.org/maven2.

All the Seam artifacts are available in Maven:


<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>
  <artifactId>jboss-seam</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>
  <artifactId>jboss-seam-ui</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>
  <artifactId>jboss-seam-pdf</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>
  <artifactId>jboss-seam-remoting</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>
  <artifactId>jboss-seam-ioc</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>
  <artifactId>jboss-seam-ioc</artifactId>
</dependency>

This sample POM will give you Seam, JPA (provided by Hibernate) and Hibernate Validator:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>org.jboss.seam.example/groupId>
  <artifactId>my-project</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <name>My Seam Project</name>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>repository.jboss.org</id>
      <name>JBoss Repository</name>
      <url>http://repository.jboss.org/maven2</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

  <dependencies>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
      <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
      <version>3.0.0.GA</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
      <artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
      <version>3.3.0.ga</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
      <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
      <version>3.3.1.ga</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>
      <artifactId>jboss-seam</artifactId>
      <version>2.0.0.GA</version>
    </dependency>
    
  </dependencies>

</project>