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PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide

PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide: The perfect introduction to PrimeFaces, this tutorial will take you step by step through all the great features, ranging from form-creation to sophisticated navigation systems. All you need are some basic JSF and jQuery skills.

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PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide

Chapter 1. Introduction to PrimeFaces

Java Server Faces (JSF) is a component-oriented framework for building web application using Java. JSF makes it easy to build web application by automating common tasks such as populating input parameter values into Java Beans by parsing input parameters, performing validations, and rendering or updating views. But building web application with rich User Interfaces (UI) still remains a challenge as Java developers may or may not be good at building fancy UI components using HTML, JavaScript directly. As JSF is a component-based framework, it allows building custom UI components with rich look and feel and can be reusable in any project.

The good news is that there are many open source and proprietary frameworks providing readymade reusable UI components, which can be used in any JSF-based applications. Among the several UI component libraries available today, PrimeFaces is an outstanding UI component library in terms of features and ease of use.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Introducing the features of PrimeFaces
  • Installing and configuring PrimeFaces
  • Creating a HelloWorld application using PrimeFaces
  • Creating simple forms using PrimeFaces
  • Performing form validations
  • Performing client-side validations
  • Understanding partial page rendering (PPR)
  • Updating view using AJAX
  • Updating view using AJAX listeners
  • Performing tasks periodically using the poll component
  • Invoking server-side methods from JavaScript using RemoteCommand

In this chapter, we will see what features make PrimeFaces an outstanding library, how to install and configure PrimeFaces and start using some of its basic components.

PrimeFaces is an open source JSF component library with 100+ rich UI components support. It has built-in AJAX support based on standard JSF 2.0 AJAX APIs.

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Key benefits

  • Detailed explanation on how to use basic PrimeFaces UI components like form controls, panels, and layouts
  • Delve into PrimeFaces advanced UI Components like Data Tables, menus, charts, file uploading, and themes
  • Easy to read and learn with its step-by-step instructions in Time for action and What just happened sections

Description

PrimeFaces is a lightweight UI component framework for JSF based applications. PrimeFaces is very easy to use because it comes as a single JAR file and requires no mandatory XML configuration. It provides more than 100 UI Components and an in-built AJAX support. It also provides theme support for UI components with more than 30 themes out-of-the-box. With PrimeFaces, developers can create rich user interfaces very easily.PrimeFaces Beginners Guide is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with clear step-by-step exercises,that will help you to learn and explore the features of PrimeFaces.PrimeFaces Beginners Guide starts by showing you how to install PrimeFaces, create sample forms, and perform validations and then looks at various commonly used PrimeFaces utility components. Next, you will look into various basic text input components like form controls, Calendar, AutoComplete, and Rich Text Editor. Then you will learn about advanced UI components such as DataTables, panels, menus,and charts. Throughout the chapters we will be building a sample web application using PrimeFaces progressively that will give you a hands-on experience on using PrimeFaces effectively.You will learn how to create complex layouts using accordion panels, tab views, sophisticated menu navigations, breadcrumbs and much more. You will also learn how to display data using DataTable with pagination, filters, and lazy loading, and how to export data to Excel or PDF features. You will learn how to represent data in various formats like trees, charts, and TagCloud. You will also learn how to build an application supporting multiple themes.With this PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide , you will learn how to use PrimeFaces easily and effectively.

Who is this book for?

PrimeFaces Beginners Guide is a simple and effective guide for beginners, wanting to learn and implement PrimeFaces in their JSF-based applications. Some basic JSF and jQuery skills are required before you start working through the book.

What you will learn

  • Explore built-in AJAX features and various PrimeFaces utility components
  • Use Partial Page Rendering(PPR) and the JQuery Selector API
  • Create forms with text fields, dropdowns, radio buttons and User Interfaces with advanced components like Calendar, AutoComplete, Star Rating, and PickList
  • Discover additional components like file upload and download components and data table components to display data with pagination
  • Filter support and export data to PDF or Excel sheet
  • Display data using tree and TagCloud components
  • Create a sophisticated navigation system using menus, multi-level menus and breadcrumbs and complex layouts using layouts, PanelGrids, tabs, and accordion panels
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Table of Contents

14 Chapters
1. Introduction to PrimeFaces Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Introducing Sample Application TechBuzz Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Using PrimeFaces Common Utility Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Using PrimeFaces Common Utility Components
Introducing the Message component
Time for action – displaying FacesMessage using <p:message>
Time for action – displaying FacesMessage with HTML content
Introducing the Messages component
Time for action – displaying FacesMessage using <p:messages>
Displaying notifications using the growl component
Time for action – displaying FacesMessages with growl
Displaying tooltips using the Tooltip component
Time for action – displaying tooltip for UI components
Time for action – using global tooltips
Partial Processing and Rendering using the Fragment component
Time for action – using the Fragment component
Introducing the Sticky component
Introducing the RequestContext utility
Time for action – updating UI components using RequestContext.update()
Time for action – executing JavaScript using RequestContext.execute()
Time for action – adding callback parameters using RequestContext.addCallbackParam()
Displaying pop-up dialogs using the Dialog component
Time for action – displaying a dialog
Time for action – client-side callbacks for onShow and onHide
Time for action – the Dialog component close event listener
Time for action – creating dialog with a registration form
Introducing dialog framework
Time for action – showing the search users screen in dialog
Time for action – passing data from the search users dialog to the source page
Introducing the ConfirmDialog component
Time for action – creating a confirmation dialog
Displaying notifications using the NotificationBar component
Time for action – displaying notification messages
Time for action – automatically hiding NotificationBar
Blocking a region using the BlockUI component
Time for action – blocking the form
Understanding PrimeFaces selectors
Time for action – updating UI components using jQuery Selectors
Introducing the search expression framework
Summary
4. Introducing the PrimeFaces Client Side Validation Framework Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Introducing Text Input Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Working with Selection Input Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Introducing Advanced Input Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Working with Data Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Introducing Advanced Data Visualization Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Working with Layout Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Introducing Navigation Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Drawing Charts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
13. Using PrimeFaces Themes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Not bad with the examples, just beware that not all code is included in the written example. eg. it shows a plain old java object POJO but fails to mention that you need to create all the setters and getters it just has a line like //getters and setters. you only find out you are supposed to enter them when the rest of the example fails to run, there is no mention of this.
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Primefaces has a lot of documentation and it can be difficult to find things when you have to finish a project yesterday. That's when the Beginner's Guide is very helpful. I had a little experience with PF and this book provided more details. Great for beginners and reference for experienced developers. I should add the source code is good as well.
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It tries to cover way too much subject matter with way too little background and explanation. It's like someone saying, "Click this. Now, click this. Now, click this.", but never explaining why. Never comparing and contrasting methods.The source code, downloaded form the publisher, doesn't match the book. Chapter 2's source code is full of various objects; however, Chapter 2 has no coding instructions - it's simply a design overview.Then, when you try to load and run the Chapter 3 source code, it is referring to objects that don't exist. You dig deeper and realize they are in the Chapter 2 source code folders. Huh? Do I need to import all of Chapter 2's source code? How do I reconcile it to the files in the Chapter 3 source code directories?Unfortunately, these are all files and not an Eclipse project that you can import.So far, a terrible experience with this book. PrimeFaces is more confusing than when I began reading this book.
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This book is totaly outdated ... it is for primefaces 4.0 ... why did you still solding it ? i lost 17 Euros for nothing
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