In part I of the tutorial, I provided the instructions about the development environment and  how to create the blog’s database. In this part II, using Eclipse’s JBoss tools plugin, we’ll create and configure the JBoss Seam web project and prepare it for full Tomcat-compatibilty and for the creation the basic CRUD (create, read, update and delete) functionality of entities which will be reverse engineered from the database using hbm2java embedded in Seam-gen whose GUI version comes built-in with JBoss Tools.

The Development Environment

To be able to follow the tutorial and reproduce the same results, it’s best (if not mandatory) that you have exactly the same version of the tools and plug-ins I mentioned in the previous post. As of this part (and so on) I’ll instruct on Eclipse Helios with JBoss Tools 3.2. You can also refer to my post titled ‘Matrix of compatible platforms and runtimes with JBoss Tools‘ to see which version of Eclipse and other stuff (such as Seam framework version) is compatible with which version of JBoss tools plugin, etc.

So here we go. Now launch Eclipse if you already haven’t done so.

Figure 2.1 - Changing perspective in Eclipse

First of all, we shall change the perspective in Eclipse to Seam – that option, however, is only available if you have JBoss tools installed. See figure 2.1 and 2.2.
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