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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

The PrimeFaces showcase


In the previous chapters, we had a look at all the possible ways to make better use of themes and their benefits and flexibility in an optimal way. We also studied some well-explained examples. As you may already know, the PrimeFaces UI suite provides a big set of interactive widgets, and it is quite impossible to cover each component in this book.

The examples in this book took a few components that are suitable for the demonstration of the concepts in a clear manner with proper code snippets and screenshots. As a JSF or PrimeFaces developer, you may need to deal with a large number of components and their features. The CSS skinning will vary from component to component, and it is difficult to play with them by creating simple examples.

The official PrimeFaces user guide (this user guide is available in the User Guides section of the PrimeFaces documentation for each PrimeFaces release and can be viewed by visiting http://www.primefaces.org/documentation) covers component...