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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

Executing a client-side JavaScript function from the server-side – the power of AJAX and RequestContext


In the previous sections, we have created a CSS rule and a JS function to apply a background color to an HTML element. The JS function needs to be executed by a JS function call when either date selection or event selection AJAX events get fired. We need to pass the currently selected date as an argument for the date selection JS function and the start date and end date as arguments for the event selection JS function.

In this case (a plain JSF application approach), we will generally store the listener arguments in hidden input variables and update those values on the AJAX update. Then we will create JS functions to retrieve the date arguments from DOM and apply the background color for the schedule date cells. These JS functions need to be executed from the oncomplete JS callbacks of the AJAX requests. This is the first approach for applying date and event background colors to a schedule...