PrimeFaces Cookbook

Over 90 practical recipes to learn PrimeFaces – the rapidly evolving, leading JSF component suite

Overview

• The first PrimeFaces book that concentrates on practical approaches rather than the theoretical ones.
• Readers will gain all the PrimeFaces insights required to complete their JSF projects successfully.
• Written in a clear, comprehensible style and addresses a wide audience on modern, trend-setting Java/JEE web development.

In Detail

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? 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.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn basic concepts to be able to work with PrimeFaces.
• Delve deep into 100+ rich UI components with all the required details.
• Get solutions to typical and advanced use cases.
• Use the best practices, avoid pitfalls, and get performance tips when working with the component suite.
• Gain know-how of writing custom components on basis of the PrimeFaces’ core functionality.
• Meet additional components from the PrimeFaces Extensions.

Approach

This is a cookbook with plenty of practical recipes enriched with code and detailed explanations.

Who this book is written for

This book is for you if you would like to learn modern Java web development based on PrimeFaces and are looking for a quick introduction into this matter. Prerequisites required for this book are basic JSF and jQuery skills.