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PrimeFaces Theme Development. Create, package, and customize stunning themes using PrimeFaces

PrimeFaces Theme Development. Create, package, and customize stunning themes using PrimeFaces

Andrew Mark R Bailey, Davi Ferreira, Andy Bailey

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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.
  • 1. To Skin an App
  • 2. Introducing PrimeFaces Themes
  • 3. jQuery UI, ThemeRoller, and the Anatomy of a Theme
  • 4. A PrimeFaces inputText component in detail
  • 5. Let's get Creative
  • 6. Icons
  • 7. Dynamic Changes, a working example
  • 8. The PrimeFaces Resource Manager
  • 9. Mobile web apps
  • 10. Final touches.
  • 11. Theme Design Best Practices
  • Title: PrimeFaces Theme Development. Create, package, and customize stunning themes using PrimeFaces
  • Author: Andrew Mark R Bailey, Davi Ferreira, Andy Bailey
  • Original title: PrimeFaces Theme Development. Create, package, and customize stunning themes using PrimeFaces
  • ISBN: 9781783988693, 9781783988693
  • Date of issue: 2015-11-03
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3art
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing