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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

Summary


In this chapter, we explored the web WAI for good web design, best practices in the usage of colors, icon sets, and background and foreground colors. We had a look at how fonts make the text stand out in a website and the difference between rich Internet applications and desktop applications in the current era. We also learned the importance of feedback from potential users. We also learned the difference between busy UIs and the data-dominated approach. We had a look at the guidelines on functions per page, the components that you are going to use, how to override common CSS styles and specific styles by going beyond the standard PrimeFaces themes, the considerations for mobile, and a few other miscellaneous best practices.

In the next chapter, we are going to discuss about the premium PrimeFaces themes and layouts and features. We will study various premium distributions in depth and learn what latest technologies are used. We will also look at the party converter tools that are...