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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

Third-party theme converters


As you already know, the ThemeRoller themes can't be used directly on the PrimeFaces components. They need to be modified as it suits the PrimeFaces infrastructure. Once you download the custom themes from the ThemeRoller tool, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. On http://jqueryui.com/download/, the download page of the ThemeRoller site, you need to uncheck the Toggle All option in order to make a theme file contain only skinning styles.

  2. Rename the jquery-ui-theme.css file to the theme.css file and then copy the images folder.

  3. Convert the images reference in the theme.css file to an expression that JSF can understand. For example, the image reference in theme.css is as follows:

    url("images/ui-bg_flat_30_cccccc_40x100.png")

    The preceding reference should be modified as follows:

    url("#{resource['primefaces-themename:images/ui-bg_flat_30_cccccc_40x100.png']}")
  4. After doing this, create a JAR file with the following folder structure:

    - jar
       -META-INF
         - resources...