The BLD (build) project is the parent project of all the other projects, that in turn are modules of the BLD project.The picture hows how these projects are related: For maven this means we need at least three projects, one for each artifact, and preferably one more to easily build the others. These should be combined in an ear-archive. To develop a Seam project that uses EJBs (and JSF), we need an ejb-archive and a web-archive. The first thing to realize is how to setup the maven project structure for this project.

How does one go about setting up all these things? And of course you want to use a good IDE, like Eclipse with JBoss tools to aid you in development. Furthermore, you want to use the power of Maven to build your project for different environments, on different systems (like you continuous build system) and use its’ rich reporting features to get an overview of the code quality of your project. Say you want to build a web application and you want to use Seam for integrating standard technologies like JSF and EJB.

Jboss plugin for eclipse