Interesting article from GeekListed. There has been excellent coverage on how to attain the most performance out of your Seam-based Web applications. One aspect of improving Seam performance that, in their opinion, has received less attention, is the framework’s excellent built-in support for caching of entity java beans and query results.

In this article, they will briefly describe the steps they  took in order to configure some basic to intermediate-level caching throughout our system. Although they didn't go as far as to gather metrics on the performance gain, the entire team roughly noticed a 30-50% improvement across the board – and all from some fairly easy work.

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