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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 explored the standard theme icon set and how to use it on various PrimeFaces components. We also learned how to create our own set of icons in the form of the image sprite technology. We saw how to create image sprites using open source online tools and add them on a PrimeFaces theme. Finally, we had a look at the Font Awesome CSS framework, which was introduced as an alternative to the standard ThemeRoller icons. To ensure best practice, we learned how to use icons on commandButton and menu components. Now that you've come to the end of this chapter, you should be comfortable using web icons for PrimeFaces components in different ways.

In the next chapter, we are going to discover how to enhance the PrimeFaces components' state based on the underlying data, use a combination of JavaScript and CSS for dynamic changes, and use the PrimeFaces utility methods for dynamic changes without using any JavaScript.