Announcing Seam in Action
September 18, 2007
For those of you wondering when Manning is going to get in on the JBoss Seam action, the news you have long awaited is here at last! I am the lucky victim...ehem...author of Seam in Action. The book will cover the soon to be released Seam 2.0. The cats are out of the bag. I can kiss sleeping goodbye. I have vicious felines chasing me down.
I'm sure your next question is, "when will it be available?" There are two answers to this question. Don't expect the printed book until JavaOne 2008 (pray for me Sister). Any earlier would result in a manuscript that is not up to your standards. I want this book to be something you can build your career on, not a race to the finish line just to say it is done. However, that doesn't mean you cannot have access to its content earlier. Seam in Action will be available under the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) in a very short time. I encourage you to join that program so that you can start learning what I have to teach about Seam, progress with me as I hone my knowledge of the framework, and help me to make the manuscript top notch.
My goal for this book is to give an practical and unbiased account of the Seam framework as well as a healthy dose of my opinions on the matter. I struggled through JSF and Hibernate for nearly two years before encountering Seam and I don't let myself forget those pains for a second. In this book, I hope to carry you through the same enlightening process that I went through when I first picked up Seam and settled into it. I am writing this book because Seam saved my ass, and I want it to save yours as well. I have never had so much fun using a framework and I want to share that enjoyment with the world. Besides, I think that I am a pretty darn good teacher. I will let you be the judge of that, though.
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