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You're reading from Learning PrimeFaces Extensions Development This book covers all the knowledge you need to start developing extended or advanced PrimeFaces applications. With lots of screenshots and a clear step-by-step approach, it makes learning an enjoyable process.

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783983247

Length 192 pages

Edition Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Primefaces

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Sudheer Jonna

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Learning PrimeFaces Extensions Development

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Introducing PrimeFaces Extensions FREE CHAPTER

2. Enhanced Form and Editor Components

3. Layout and Screen Blocking Components

4. The Enriched Data Container and QR Code Components

5. Time Tracking and Scheduling Components

6. Extended Data Reporting and Image Components

7. Common Utility Solutions, Error Handling, and Plugins

Index

The Maven resource optimizer plugin and its features

The PrimeFaces Extensions team provided a Maven resource plugin for optimizing resources. The resources can be optimized by compressing and merging the JS/CSS files and optimizing the loading of images using data URIs.

The Maven plugin integrates Google compiler closure and YUI compressor by taking advantage of both the plugins. The Google compiler closure provides better compression results for JavaScript files compared to the YUI compressor. However, the Google compiler can't be used for CSS files' compression; you have to use YUI compressor for it. The resource optimization provided by this plugin was better than the YUI-Compression plugin.

Each JavaScript file was better compressed in the simple mode itself, but in the advanced mode, the difference was dramatic. However, you need to be careful when using the advanced mode because unused functions were removed entirely.