1.6.2. Overview of the booking example

The project structure here is identical to that of the previous project. To install and deploy this application, refer to Section 1.1, “Using the Seam examples”. Once you have successfully started the application, you can access it by pointing your browser to http://localhost:8080/seam-booking/
The application uses six session beans to implement the business logic for the following features:
  • AuthenticatorAction provides the log in authentication logic.
  • BookingListAction retrieves existing bookings for the currently logged in user.
  • ChangePasswordAction updates the password of the currently logged in user.
  • HotelBookingAction implements booking and confirmation functionality. This is implemented as a conversation, so this is one of the more important classes in the application.
  • HotelSearchingAction implements the hotel search functionality.
  • RegisterAction registers a new system user.
Three entity beans implement the application's persistent domain model:
  • Hotel is an entity bean that represents a hotel
  • Booking is an entity bean that represents an existing booking
  • User is an entity bean representing a user who can make hotel bookings