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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 structure of a theme and the rules that we need to change in order to tweak our theme to make it even better. We also learned how to override the PrimeFaces component rules and make sure that our rules have precedence over them. We saw that PrimeFaces also uses more modern CSS rules than the ones that jQuery UI uses where appropriate and that we can change these rules as well. We also became comfortable defining new rules by associating our theme with specific component types. It was demonstrated that although a PrimeFaces theme is about how things look like on a page, we are not restricted to the general rules provided by ThemeRoller to achieve our aims.

In the next chapter, we are going to discover how PrimeFaces uses icon sprites, how we can provide our own icons, how to add new icons that are not already provided, and how to use Font Awesome icons in PrimeFaces application.