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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

Adding additional PrimeFaces themes


In this section, we are going to turn to the power of Maven to add additional themes. We can do this because the PrimeFaces team has made them available as dependencies. The only difference here is that they haven't made them available on Maven Central Repository. Instead, they are available on PrimeFaces Maven repository.

Note

Did you know that anyone can set up a Maven repository for themselves and provide libraries to the public? Doing this means not having to wait to get your work added to Maven Central Repository.

In order to get Maven to point to the PrimeFaces repository, we need to add an entry in the project's pom.xml file.

Open the pom.xml file, which will be found in the project's Project Files folder. Under the name tag (highlighted in the following code), add everything in the repositories tag and save the file:

  <name>PFThemes</name>
  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>prime-repo</id>
      <name...