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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

Capturing images with photoCam


The photoCam component supports taking images with the attached camera and sending them to the JSF backend data model.

How to do it...

A simple definition for capturing an image with the photoCam component would be as follows:

<p:photoCam widgetVar="pc" listener="#{photoCamController.onCapture}" update="capturedImage"/>

<p:graphicImage id="capturedImage" value="#{photoCamController.capturedImage}" />update="capturedImage"/>

<p:commandButton type="button" value="Capture" onclick="pc.capture()"/>

How it works...

The captured image is triggered via the client-side JavaScript method capture. The button declared in the preceding sample invokes the capture method via the widget variable defined for the photoCam component. A method expression, which will be invoked when an image is captured, is bound to the listener attribute. This method will handle the image captured on the server side. A sample definition for the method is as follows:

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