For me, one of the hardest things about getting started with developing with Seam was getting a project setup that I could work with. The examples that ship with Seam only build within the whole Seam super-project, which doesn't work for developing your own projects. Most of the other guides on setting up a project (using Eclipse WTP, or other things) either didn't work for me, or seemed overly complicated, or used a structure that just seemed odd to me.

If they work for you, that's great. If they don't, I've posted up a zipped up version of the base seam project that I use. I use Eclipse 3.2 and MyEclipseIDE as my development environment, so you may need to make a few tweaks. You have to configure your JBoss installation location, and the ant script will build and deploy an exploded ear file as it's default target. The project I used for the base structure is the Seam Booking example, so just replace things as you like.

Get the base seam project here!

JBoss has recently released version 1.1 beta of the Seam product.

As JBoss puts it, Seam is:

JBoss Seam is a powerful new application framework to build next generation Web 2.0 applications by unifying and integrating popular service oriented architecture (SOA) technologies like Asynchronous JavaScript and XML(AJAX), Java Server Faces(JSF), Enterprise Java Beans(EJB3), Java Portlets and Business Process Management(BPM) and workflow.

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