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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

Listing data with orderList


The orderList component is used to sort a collection with the support of drag-and-drop reordering, transition effects, and POJO support.

How to do it...

A basic definition for sorting a collection of strings would be as follows:

<p:orderList id="simple" value="#{orderListController.countries}" 
var="country" itemLabel="#{country}" itemValue="#{country}" />

The output of the code is given as follows:

There's more...

With the controlsLocation attribute, we can control the position of the controls. The default value is left; other possible values are right and none.

Transition effects

Effects can be applied with the effect attribute for content transition when a selection is moved upwards or downwards. The default value of effect is fade. Possible values for the attribute are:

  • blind

  • clip

  • drop

  • explode

  • fade

  • fold

  • puff

  • scale

  • slide

PrimeFaces Cookbook Showcase application

This recipe is available in the PrimeFaces Cookbook Showcase application on GitHub at https...