To get Code Assist for Seam specific resources in an externally generated project, you should enable Seam features in Project Preferences. Right click an imported project and navigate Properties > Seam Settings. Check Seam support box to enable all available Seam Settings.

To import an example Seam project from jboss-eap into your working directory, you should perform the following steps:

As these seam examples are non WTP projects, next you should enable Seam support for them. To do that, right click the project and go to Properties > Seam Settings.

You should right-click the project, select Properties > Java Build Path, then switch to the Source tab, select the output folder for src/hot ( src/main) and click Edit to change their output location.

In conclusion, the main goal of this document is to get you know with a full featureset that JBoss Tools provides to support Seam development. Thus if you have some questions, comments or suggestions on the topic, please fell free to ask in the JBoss Tools Forum. You can also influence on how you want to see JBoss Tools docs in future leaving your vote on the article Overview of the improvements required by JBossTools/JBDS Docs users.

A set of movies on Seam tooling is available on Seam movies page.