Create, package, and customize stunning themes using PrimeFaces
About This Book
* Build PrimeFaces themes that meet the industry standards
* Customize your themes for mobile web applications with PrimeFaces Mobile
* A precise, example-oriented guide to help you create interesting themes using the PrimeFaces tools
Who This Book Is For
If you are a Web Designer who wants to create and modify PrimeFaces themes then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of JSF, CSS, and HTML is assumed.
What You Will Learn
* Use Maven to create JSF Projects
* Create a custom theme using JQuery UI tools
* Package your theme for distribution and use your PrimeFaces-based web applications as drop in libraries
* Develop additional dynamic look and feel elements that themes do not already supply
* Apply look and feel elements dynamically to views without causing page refreshes
* Reduce code repetition by applying page templates to your JSF project
In Detail
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.
Style and approach
This book is a concise, hands-on guide to developing PrimeFaces themes, working from the ground up with examples in each topic implemented in a web application. You will be encouraged to explore areas of your own interest without the requirement to stick to the letter of the chapter.
Author Biography:
Andy Bailey is a middle-aged Java enthusiast. He has been involved in Java development since the humble beginnings of Java 1.0.1 in 1995. He thoroughly enjoys challenges even more so now than ever.
He has had a varied career, including extended employment with the UK Ministry of Defence, youth outreach programs as a volunteer, and a volunteer paramedic.
After gaining a degree in computer science with artificial intelligence from the University of Sussex, he immigrated to Germany in 1996. He learned how to speak and write in German while being involved in projects as diverse as 24/7 multimedia live streaming and buffering free multimedia playback to design, develop, and build systems to control, monitor, and analyze data collected from gaming machines in a widely distributed environment.
This is his first publication. However, he has helped review other publications, including PrimeFaces Cookbook. Sudheer Jonna was born in Andhra Pradesh, India, in 1987. Currently, he works as a senior software engineer in Chennai, India. He completed his master's degree in computer applications from JNTU. In the past 4-5 years, he worked on providing architectural designs and building various web applications based on JSF, Struts, Spring, jQuery, JPA, EJB, and various Java EE and frontend technologies.
He is a JSF and PrimeFaces expert. He has been working with the PrimeFaces component library since 2011. He worked as a committer and project member of PrimeFaces and PrimeFaces Extensions open source projects. He has been a well-known, recognized member of the PrimeFaces community for the past few years. He is also the author of Learning PrimeFaces Extensions Development and PrimeFaces BluePrints books, Packt Publishing. He worked as reviewer for PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide and community reviewer for many other books.
Besides working with the aforementioned technologies, he also writes technical articles, provides online training, designs and develops web application architecture, writes books and reviews, and provides suggestions through online forums and blogs. He is interested in the research and development of various popular Java EE frameworks and many other latest technologies.
He shares his knowledge through GitHub (https://github.com/sudheerj). He recently started blogging (http://sudheerjonna.blogspot.in/). You can follow him on Twitter (@SudheerJonna) or contact him on Gmail at sudheer.jonna@gmail.com.
