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PrimeFaces Cookbook

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PrimeFaces Cookbook

Overview of this book

PrimeFaces is the de facto standard in the Java web development. PrimeFaces is a lightweight library with one jar, zero-configuration, and no required dependencies. You just need to download PrimeFaces, add the primefaces-{version}.jar to your classpath and import the namespace to get started. This cookbook provides a head start by covering all the knowledge needed for working with PrimeFaces components in the real world. "PrimeFaces Cookbook" covers over 100 effective recipes for PrimeFaces 3.x which is a leading component suite to boost JSF applications. The book's range is wide‚Äí from AJAX basics, theming, and input components to advanced usage of datatable, menus, drag & drop, and charts. It also includes creating custom components and PrimeFaces Extensions.You will start with the basic concepts such as installing PrimeFaces, configuring it, and writing a first simple page. You will learn PrimeFaces' theming concept and common inputs and selects components. After that more advanced components and use cases will be discussed. The topics covered are grouping content with panels, data iteration components, endless menu variations, working with files and images, using drag & drop, creating charts, and maps. The last chapters describe solutions for frequent, advanced scenarios and give answers on how to write custom components based on PrimeFaces and also show the community-driven open source project PrimeFaces Extension in action.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
PrimeFaces Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Default stateless theme switcher


Multi-themable web applications require a theme switcher component. The default PrimeFaces' theme switcher is a component, which enables switching themes on the fly without a round-trip to the server. We speak about a stateless theme switcher because the current selected theme is only known on the client side.

In this recipe, we will show the usage of such a stateless theme switcher.

How to do it...

The theme switcher usage is very similar to the usage of p:selectOneMenu. The component is represented by the p:themeSwitcher tag and accepts f:selectItem or f:selectItems.

<p:themeSwitcher style="width:165px" effect="fade">
    <f:selectItem itemLabel="Choose Theme" itemValue=""/>
    <f:selectItems value="#{userSettingsController.themes}"/>
</p:themeSwitcher>

Themes are prepared in a managed bean UserSettingsController.

@ManagedBean
@SessionScoped
public class UserSettingsController implements Serializable {

    public Map<String, String...