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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.

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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
PrimeFaces Cookbook
PrimeFaces Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with PrimeFaces
Getting Started with PrimeFaces
Introduction
Setting up and configuring the PrimeFaces library
AJAX basics with Process and Update
Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (L10n)
Improved resource ordering
PrimeFaces scaffolding with Spring Roo
2
Theming Concept
Theming Concept
Introduction
Understanding the structural and skinning CSS
Installing themes
Customizing theme styles
Customizing default styles on input components
Adjusting the font and size throughout the web application
Why does the theme look different in Internet Explorer?
Simple ways to create a new theme
Default stateless theme switcher
Alternative stateful theme switchers
3
Enhanced Inputs and Selects
Enhanced Inputs and Selects
Introduction
Formatted input with inputMask
Auto suggestion with autoComplete
Usable features of inputTextArea
Discovering selectBooleanCheckbox and selectManyCheckbox
Basic and advanced calendar scenarios
Spinner – different ways to provide input
Slider – different ways to provide input
Rich text editing with editor
Advanced editing with in-place editor
Enhanced password input
Star-based rating input
4
Grouping Content with Panels
Grouping Content with Panels
Introduction
Grouping content with a standard panel
Panel grid with colspan and rowspan support
Vertical stacked panels with accordion
Displaying overflowed content with scrollPanel
Working with a tabbed panel
Grouping of buttons and more with toolbar
Simulating the portal environment with dashboard
Creating complex layouts
5
Data Iteration Components
Data Iteration Components
Introduction
Selecting rows in dataTable
Sorting and filtering data in dataTable
In-cell editing with dataTable
Conditional coloring in dataTable
Handling tons of data – LazyDataModel
Listing data with dataList
Listing data with pickList
Listing data with orderList
Visualizing data with tree
Visualizing data with treeTable
Exporting data in various formats
Visualizing data with carousel
Visualizing data with ring
6
Endless Menu Variations
Endless Menu Variations
Introduction
Static and dynamic positioned menus
Creating a programmatic menu
Context menu with nested items
Context menu integration
SlideMenu – menu in iPod style
TieredMenu – submenus in nested overlays
MegaMenu – multicolumn menu
PanelMenu – hybrid of accordion and tree
Accessing commands via Menubar
Displaying checkboxes in SelectCheckboxMenu
Dock menu for Mac OS fans
7
Working with Files and Images
Working with Files and Images
Introduction
Basic, automatic, and multiple file upload
Uploading a file with drag-and-drop
Downloading files
Cropping images
Displaying a collection of images
Capturing images with photoCam
Comparing images
8
Drag Me, Drop Me
Drag Me, Drop Me
Introduction
Making a component draggable
Restricting dragging by axis, grid, and containment
Snapping to the edges of the nearest elements
Defining droppable targets
Restricting dropping by tolerance and acceptance
AJAX-enhanced drag-and-drop
Integrating drag-and-drop with data iteration components
9
Creating Charts and Maps
Creating Charts and Maps
Introduction
Creating a line chart
Creating a bar chart
Creating a pie chart
Creating a bubble chart
Creating a donut (doughnut) chart
Creating a meter gauge chart
Creating an OHLC chart
Updating live data in charts with polling
Interacting with charts through AJAX
Creating dynamic image streaming programmatically
Mapping with Google Maps
10
Miscellaneous, Advanced Use Cases
Miscellaneous, Advanced Use Cases
Introduction
The power of the PrimeFaces selectors
Programmatic updating and scrolling with RequestContext
Two ways to trigger JavaScript execution
Adding AJAX callback parameters – validation within a dialog
Navigating to another page in AJAX calls
Polling – sending periodical AJAX requests
Blocking page pieces during long-running AJAX calls
Remembering current menu selection
Controlling form submission by DefaultCommand
Clever focus management in forms
Layout pitfalls with menus and dialogs
Targetable messages with severity levels
Leveraging Schedule's lazy loading feature
Index
Index

About the Authors

Mert Çalışkan is a Principle Software Architect living in Ankara, Turkey. He has over 10 years of expertise in Software Development and he has mainly worked on architectural design of Enterprise Web Applications with specialty in Java. He is also an open source advocate for software projects such as PrimeFaces, and has also been a committer and founder to various others. He shares his knowledge and ideas at local and international conferences such as JSFDays 2008, JDC 2010, CeTURK 2010, and Gelecex 2012. He is also a member of OpenLogic Expert Community and Apache Software Foundation.

I would like to thank my family, my beloved, our advisers at Packt Publishing, Usha Iyer and Abhishek Kori, my good old friend Çağatay Çivici, and our reviewers Andy Bailey and Hebert Coelho de Oliveira. These people accompanied us during the entire writing process and made the book publication possible with their support, suggestions, and reviews.

Oleg Varaksin is a Senior Software Engineer living in the Black Forest, Germany. He is a graduate computer scientist who studied Informatics at Russian and German universities. His main occupation and "daily bread" in the last 6 to 7 years has consisted of building web applications based on Struts, JSP, JSF, Spring, and jQuery—mostly document management systems. He is an experienced JSF expert and has been working with the component library PrimeFaces since its beginning in 2009. He is also a well-known member of the PrimeFaces community and co-creator of the PrimeFaces Extensions project—additional JSF 2 components for PrimeFaces. Besides these mentioned technologies, he has worked as a Frontend Developer with many other web and JS frameworks—GWT, Prototype, YUI Library, and so on—and implemented his own AJAX framework before all the hype about AJAX began.

Oleg normally shares the knowledge he has acquired on his blog http://ovaraksin.blogspot.com.

I would like to thank my family, especially my wife Veronika, our advisers from Packt Publishing, Usha Iyer and Abhishek Kori, and our reviewer Andy Bailey and the PrimeFaces project lead Çağatay Çivici. These people accompanied us during the entire writing process and made the book publication possible with their support, suggestions, and reviews.

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