Primefaces Theme Development [Paperback]

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 sel„