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Chapter 3. Getting started with seam-gen

Seam includes a command line utility that makes it easy to set up an Eclipse project, generate some simple Seam skeleton code, and reverse-engineer an application from a preexisting database. This is an easy way to familiarize yourself with Seam.
In this release, seam-gen works best in conjunction with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
seam-gen can be used without Eclipse, but this tutorial focuses on using seam-gen with Eclipse for debugging and integration testing. If you would prefer not to use Eclipse, you can still follow this tutorial — all steps can be performed from the command line.

3.1. Before you start
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JBoss Enterprise Application Platform has sophisticated support for hot redeployment of WARs and EARs. Unfortunately, due to bugs in JVM, repeat redeployment of an EAR (common during development) uses all of the JVM's perm gen space. Therefore, we recommend running JBoss in a JVM with a large perm gen space during development.
If you are running JBoss from JBoss IDE, you can configure this in the server launch configuration, under "VM arguments". We suggest the following values: 
-Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
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The minimum recommended values are: 
-Xms256m -Xmx512m -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
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If you are running EAP from the command line, you can configure the JVM options in bin/run.conf.
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