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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

Busy UI versus data-dominated UI


This is wholly dependent on the type of web app that you are developing, but the type of web app that is best suited for the JSF framework tends to be data-dominated. Normally, in the busy UI type of applications, users have to perform multiple interactive actions and immediate dynamic changes in the frontend, which makes the user interface busy all the time. The user interface became too busy with JS, DOM operations, and AJAX requests along with plain HTTP requests. It is recommended that you use busy indicators after an action is performed and waiting for the result to get the data from the server. Making the UI too busy confuses the user and browsers will blow down after some time. You can also block the UI with the blockUI component from PrimeFaces in order to stop duplicate or multiple requests at a time. This approach is mainly used to create fancy applications.

Big applications mostly carry a lot of data and the JSF framework eyes on it by designing...