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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

Setting up and installing premium themes


The setup and installation of premium themes and layouts is quite easy, and this process is the same for every premium distribution.

The setup and installation of a premium theme is similar to that of any other community theme. You just need to set the primefaces.THEME context param to the sentinel, spark, ronin, rio, or modena theme.

The setup and installation of a premium layout requires a step-by-step process, which is explained as follows:

  • Each layout provides a main template.xhtml and additional layoutmenu.xhtml (the leftmenu.xhtml file for sentinel and topbar.xhtml for the base layout). You need to copy and place these three files under the WEB-INF folder of your project.

  • To kick-start a page from scratch, use a layout provided by a sample empty-page.xhtml page (by using the main template.xhtml file) to define custom content, where content is the main ui:define placeholder.

  • Each layout contains resources such as CSS, JavaScript, images, and font...