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PrimeFaces Cookbook

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PrimeFaces Cookbook

Overview of this book

PrimeFaces is the de facto standard in the Java web development. PrimeFaces is a lightweight library with one jar, zero-configuration, and no required dependencies. You just need to download PrimeFaces, add the primefaces-{version}.jar to your classpath and import the namespace to get started. This cookbook provides a head start by covering all the knowledge needed for working with PrimeFaces components in the real world. "PrimeFaces Cookbook" covers over 100 effective recipes for PrimeFaces 3.x which is a leading component suite to boost JSF applications. The book's range is wide‚Äí from AJAX basics, theming, and input components to advanced usage of datatable, menus, drag & drop, and charts. It also includes creating custom components and PrimeFaces Extensions.You will start with the basic concepts such as installing PrimeFaces, configuring it, and writing a first simple page. You will learn PrimeFaces' theming concept and common inputs and selects components. After that more advanced components and use cases will be discussed. The topics covered are grouping content with panels, data iteration components, endless menu variations, working with files and images, using drag & drop, creating charts, and maps. The last chapters describe solutions for frequent, advanced scenarios and give answers on how to write custom components based on PrimeFaces and also show the community-driven open source project PrimeFaces Extension in action.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
PrimeFaces Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Basic and advanced calendar scenarios


The calendar component is used to provide date input with customizable features such as localization, paging of months and restriction mechanisms on the date selection.

How to do it...

The simplest component declaration for a basic date selection would be as follows:

<p:calendar value="#{calendarController.date}" />

This renders an input text that opens up a pop-up date selection dialog when clicked, as shown in the following screenshot:

The pop-up visual of the calendar can also be configured to render as an inline visual on the page with the mode attribute, as follows:

<p:calendar value="#{calendarController.date}" mode="inline" />

The output of the calendar component in the inline mode will be as shown in the following screenshot:

The default value of mode is popup. It is also possible to render multiple months side by side on the page with the pages attribute.

<p:calendar id="paging" value="#{calendarController.date}" pages="3" mode="inline...