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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


We have now come to the end of the chapter and achieved a lot. While we pat ourselves on the shoulder or drink a well-earned cup of coffee/tea, let us review what we have done up to now.

We had a brief look at the difference between standard JSF and PrimeFaces components in terms of the HTML that is generated for them. One of the issues with standard JSF components is the lack of accessibility support. By default, PrimeFaces addresses this issue.

We added extra themes to the project and then set the appropriate context parameter in web.xml to use one of them instead of the default aristo theme. We then added code that displays the name of the current theme being used. We created two JavaBeans, which allow us to set and change the theme for each user independent of the application settings as well as provide a list of themes that a user can choose from.

In order to make things easier when adding content to the project, we created a Facelets Template, which can be used to add standard...