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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have covered the difference between a layout and the look and feel of CSS. It is now clear as to why the separation of the two types of CSS is a good idea. We have also looked at jQuery UI ThemeRoller and used it to create our own theme. Having done this, we then used the OSnode (short for Open Source node) ThemeRoller in the PrimeFaces theme converter to create a PrimeFaces-ready theme. We have used Maven to add the new theme JAR to our local Maven repository and have then added it as a dependency to our project. We have tested the theme before adding it to the list of available themes in ThemeSwitcher.

In the next chapter, we will look in detail at how a theme actually works by comparing the HTML generated by a standard JSF inputText component and a PrimeFaces inputText component.