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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

Using your unpackaged theme and applying it to your application


In Chapter 3, jQuery UI, ThemeRoller, and the Anatomy of a Theme, we created a custom theme and packaged it using the OSNode theme packaging tool. In this chapter, we are going to need the original CSS file and images folder from the ThemeRoller custom theme that we downloaded and to add it into our project.

By adding the CSS file and folder, we will be able to easily change the CSS rules and immediately see the changes that were made to our theme in the web project.

Go to the folder with the original downloaded zip file in it. I renamed my zip file moodyblue.zip because that is the name of my theme, which is why we see the name moodyblue in some of the screenshots.

We will need to unzip the file into the same folder and then locate the css folder, as shown in the following screenshot:

In the web project under Web Pages/resources, we need to create a new folder named primefaces-<ourtheme>2. The <ourtheme> part needs...