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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

Mapping with Google Maps


The gmap component provides ways to integrate Google Maps into JSF applications. It is built upon Google Maps API V3.

How to do it...

In order to use the component, the Google Maps API script should be referenced from the page, ideally in the header section.

<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=true" type="text/javascript"></script>

The sensor parameter in the URL is mandatory and it specifies whether the application requires a sensor, such as a GPS locator.

A simple definition for a placing a map canvas on the page will be as follows:

<p:gmap center="41.106261, 29.057465" zoom="10" type="hybrid" style="width:600px;height:400px" />

This output will be rendered as follows:

How it works…

The gmap component depicts the four attributes that should be set, as shown in the previous example, in order to use the map canvas properly. The center attribute defines the center of the map in [latitude, longitude] format. The zoom attribute defines...