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Primefaces Theme development

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Primefaces Theme development

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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
PrimeFaces Theme Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Introducing PrimeFaces Themes

In order to be able to experience using JSF and the PrimeFaces library, we are going to continue our work from the last chapter and add to the PFThemes project. By the end of this chapter, you will have a deeper understanding of how even a simple JSF application can be greatly enriched by using PrimeFaces components in it. In particular, I will demonstrate how PrimeFaces provides a powerful themes framework.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • The difference between standard JSF and PrimeFaces components

  • Adding additional themes to the project

  • Changing the theme used by the project

  • Displaying the name of the theme used by the project

  • Adding some classes to allow us to use the ThemeSwitcher component

  • Changing web.xml so that it supports dynamic themes

  • Creating a Facelets Template and adding a menu for navigation and a ThemeSwitcher to it

  • Creating a page that uses this template and adding some components to it

  • Adding a link to this page in the...