What i’m about to show you is not really much of a tutorial but more of an example of one way of working with eclipse and deploying your seam based web app to tomcat. If you’re ok with JBoss, then go with it, nothing beats the support and ease of configuration that the JBoss AS provides for deploying seam applications. But since I was running JBoss on an old 5400 rpm hard disk with 25 other applications reading and writing data to it, it used to take 10+ minutes for it to startup (7m with reduced logging) and anywhere from 4 to 10 minutes for a hot redeploy of the application. Maybe I wasn’t doing it right but I decided to switch to tomcat for it’s ease of use and because i’m more familiar with its errors and pitfalls (configuring a ds comes to mind).
There are a few good tutorials out there if you want to work with JBoss and maybe one or two good ones for tomcat but nothing that works out of the box. One special tutorial is (more…)