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PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide

By : Siva Prasad Reddy Katamreddy
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PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide

By: Siva Prasad Reddy Katamreddy

Overview of this book

PrimeFaces is a lightweight UI component framework for JSF based applications. PrimeFaces is very easy to use because it comes as a single JAR file and requires no mandatory XML configuration. It provides more than 100 UI Components and an in-built AJAX support. It also provides theme support for UI components with more than 30 themes out-of-the-box. With PrimeFaces, developers can create rich user interfaces very easily.PrimeFaces Beginners Guide is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with clear step-by-step exercises,that will help you to learn and explore the features of PrimeFaces.PrimeFaces Beginners Guide starts by showing you how to install PrimeFaces, create sample forms, and perform validations and then looks at various commonly used PrimeFaces utility components. Next, you will look into various basic text input components like form controls, Calendar, AutoComplete, and Rich Text Editor. Then you will learn about advanced UI components such as DataTables, panels, menus,and charts. Throughout the chapters we will be building a sample web application using PrimeFaces progressively that will give you a hands-on experience on using PrimeFaces effectively.You will learn how to create complex layouts using accordion panels, tab views, sophisticated menu navigations, breadcrumbs and much more. You will also learn how to display data using DataTable with pagination, filters, and lazy loading, and how to export data to Excel or PDF features. You will learn how to represent data in various formats like trees, charts, and TagCloud. You will also learn how to build an application supporting multiple themes.With this PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide , you will learn how to use PrimeFaces easily and effectively.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Using PrimeFaces Common Utility Components
Index

Introducing the Message component


Message is an enhanced version of the standard JSF Message component with additional features and skinning capabilities. The <p:message> component is similar to the standard JSF's <h:message>, and is used to output a single message for a specific component as follows:

<p:message for="email"/>

The <p:message/> component provides the following attributes, which can be used to customize message display:

  • showSummary: This specifies whether the summary of FacesMessages should be displayed. Default value is false

  • showDetail: This specifies whether the detail of FacesMessages should be displayed. Default value is true

  • for: ID of the component whose message is to be displayed

  • display: Display mode can be text, icon, or both. Default is both.

    • text: Only message text is displayed

    • icon: Only message severity is displayed and message text is visible as a tooltip

    • both: Both icon and text are displayed

  • escape: This defines whether HTML would be escaped or...