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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

The PrimeFaces ThemeSwitcher component


PrimeFaces provides a component called ThemeSwitcher, which allows us to change themes dynamically without having to refresh the page that we are on. In order to get this to work, we need to create some classes known as JavaBeans, which provide things that the ThemeSwitcher needs in order to work its magic.

We are going to add some new packages to our project and then create our Beans. Perform the following steps to add new packages to our project:

  1. Right-click on the project in the Project view and select New….

  2. You may have to scroll down a bit or even select the Other… option, but we are looking for the Java option. This displays a list of things that we can create, and we want a package.

  3. We add a package with the name com.andyba.pfthemes.session keeping the other values as they are.

  4. Then, add another package named com.andyba.pfthemes.themes.

Now, in order to create our first Bean, perform the following steps:

  1. Select New… by right-clicking on the themes package...