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Primefaces Theme development

Primefaces Theme development

By : Andy Bailey, Sudheer Jonna
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Primefaces Theme development

Primefaces Theme development

By: Andy Bailey, Sudheer Jonna

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.
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Running the project

Now build the project again. After the build is finished, right-click on the project and select Run.

This causes the GlassFish server to run and our application to be deployed. Once the project is deployed, NetBeans then opens its default browser and points it to the application's start page.

Tip

I use Google Chrome as my NetBeans default browser because NetBeans provides a Chrome plugin that allows us to debug scripts in our pages as well as other useful services. I am not going to force you to use a particular browser, but I do recommend that you use Google Chrome for the aforementioned reasons. The only browser-related thing that you should avoid is using Internet Explorer below version 8. The latest JSF technologies are not guaranteed to work with the older Internet Explorer versions, and the visual experience, even with Internet Explorer 8, is underwhelming compared to modern browsers.

We should see something like this in Chrome:

Running the project

Now that we have got the project running, we can add the other configuration files that we saw in an earlier screenshot.

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