Displaying data with sliding effects using the Carousel component

Carousel is a multipurpose component to display a set of data or general content with slide effects.

On many websites, a Company's information such as what they do, about their products and other types of services they provide, will be displayed in a slideshow style. We can use the Carousel component to implement this kind of feature.

Suppose we are building an e-commerce bookstore application and want to display all the latest books on the home page in a slideshow style. Let us see how we can use a <p:carousel> component to implement this.

<p:carousel value="#{carouselController.books}" var="book" 
   headerText="Latest Books">
  <h:panelGrid columns="1" style="width:100%" cellpadding="5">
    <p:graphicImage value="/resources/images/books/#{book}" width="180px" height="220px;"/>
  </h:panelGrid>
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