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Primefaces Theme development

Primefaces Theme development

By : Andy Bailey, Sudheer Jonna
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Primefaces Theme development

Primefaces Theme development

By: Andy Bailey, Sudheer Jonna

Overview of this book

Developing stunning themes for web applications has never been easier! PrimeFaces delivers a powerful set of features that enables JSF developers to create and customize awesome themes on the web. It is very easy to use because it comes as a single JAR file and requires no mandatory XML configuration. With more than 30 out-of-the-box themes, jQuery integration, a mobile UI toolkit, Ajax Push technology, and much more, PrimeFaces takes JSF application development to a whole new level! This book is a hands-on example-rich guide to creating and customizing PrimeFaces themes using available tools. Beginning with creating a JSF project and integrating the PrimeFaces library, this book will introduce you to the features of theme components, how these are structured, and how PrimeFaces uses JQuery UI to apply a theme to your application. You will learn to examine and change the CSS rules and get creative by setting standard icons and adding new icons to them. You will use a combination of JavaScript and CSS to enhance your application with help of scheduler component and go on to adapt and package your custom theme so that it is compatible with the Resource Manager. Finally, you will explore PrimeFaces mobile apps, ensuring themes are compatible with your mobile applications best practices for theme design.
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Chapter 1. To Skin an App

In this chapter, you will be introduced to the PrimeFaces JSF (short for JavaServer Faces) component library, and you will create a Maven-based JSF web application. This application will be used throughout the book to demonstrate and test the things that we will learn in each chapter and section.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Why we need to create an app
  • An introduction to the PrimeFaces library
  • Creating a Maven JSF project
  • Integrating the PrimeFaces library into a Maven JSF project
  • Adding the additional dependencies that GlassFish needs
  • Building the project
  • Running the project
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