You're reading from 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.

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783280698

Length 378 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Primefaces

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

K. Siva Prasad Reddy

Preface

1. Introduction to PrimeFaces FREE CHAPTER

2. Introducing Sample Application TechBuzz

3. Using PrimeFaces Common Utility Components

4. Introducing the PrimeFaces Client Side Validation Framework

5. Introducing Text Input Components

6. Working with Selection Input Components

7. Introducing Advanced Input Components

8. Working with Data Components

9. Introducing Advanced Data Visualization Components

10. Working with Layout Components

11. Introducing Navigation Components

12. Drawing Charts

13. Using PrimeFaces Themes

Index

Time for action – installing the required software

For developing the TechBuzz application, we will be using the following software and tools:

JDK: PrimeFaces needs JDK 1.5 or later. We can download and install JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.
IDE: We will be using Eclipse as the IDE, but if you want to use the NetBeans IDE, IntelliJ IDEA or any other IDEs, you can import and use them without any changes, as TechBuzz is a Maven-based web application. You can download and install the Eclipse IDE from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.
Application server: PrimeFaces can run on any servlet container such as Apache Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, Glassfish, and so on. We will be using Apache Tomcat for TechBuzz but you can deploy and run on any of the servlet containers. You can download Apache Tomcat 7.0.39 from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi.
Database: For the TechBuzz application, we will be using the MySQL database. You can use any other relational...

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