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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

Going beyond the standard PrimeFaces theme


The PrimeFaces theme gallery already provides more than 30 built-in themes if you want to choose the right theme for your applications. The theme gallery also includes other component library-specific themes, which are useful in migration.

For example, if you are using Apache Trinidad or JBOSS RichFaces, then the PrimeFaces theme gallery already contains Trinidad's Casablanca and RichFaces' BlueSky theme so that you can make PrimeFaces look like the Trinidad or RichFaces components during migration.

However, you will encounter many situations where none of the predefined PrimeFaces themes exactly fit your needs. In these cases, you can customize your own theme. We shouldn't start creating the theme from scratch. But first, you have to select a theme that is close to what you need and then tweak the theme as per your requirements using the ThemeRoller tool (Fore more information about ThemeRoller, visit http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/).

We have already...