8.4. New Frontiers

You have seen how the Seam conversation model simplifies stateful application development. But Seam goes far beyond simplifying the development of traditional web applications.

The fully encapsulated conversation components enable us to tie the user experience and the application’s transactional behavior with conversations. That has opened new frontiers in web application development. Seam makes it possible to develop advanced web applications that are too complex or even impossible for older web frameworks. We cover some of those new scenarios in Chapters 9 and 11.