Primefaces Cookbook - Softcover

Caliskan, Mert; Varaksin, Oleg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784393428 ISBN 13: 9781784393427

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Over 100 practical recipes to learn PrimeFaces 5.x – the most popular JSF component library on the planet

About This Book

• The updated second edition of the first PrimeFaces book ever released is brought to you straight from the horse's mouth, and focuses on practical implementations of the framework rather than theoretical ones
• With this book, you will get everything you need to know about PrimeFaces first-hand and will learn how to easily integrate and use PrimeFaces successfully with your JSF projects
• This book is written in a clear, comprehensible style and addresses a wide audience who set their scope on Java EE development

Who This Book Is For

This book is for everybody who would like to learn modern Java web development based on PrimeFaces and is looking for a quick introduction to this matter. Prerequisites for this book are basic JSF, jQuery, and CSS skills.

What You Will Learn

• Understand basic concepts such as AJAX processing and partial view submit so that you can work with PrimeFaces
• Go beyond the basics and discover more interesting features of PrimeFaces: PrimeFaces selectors, RequestContext, Dialog Framework, and more
• Delve deep into over 100 rich UI components with all the required details
• Get practical solutions to complex problems that arise in a JSF ecosystem
• Use best practices, avoid pitfalls, and get performance tips when working with the component suite

In Detail

PrimeFaces is the most popular component library used in the JSF ecosystem. It is a lightweight library with one JAR, zero configuration, and no required dependencies.

This book covers over 100 effective recipes for PrimeFaces 5.2, which is a leading component suite to boost JSF-based applications. The book starts with an introduction to PrimeFaces and its concepts, such as AJAX processing, the selector mechanism, partial view submit, and i18n support. Later chapters then focus on theming and the usage of over 100 input and output components, such as tables, charts, menus, and so on.

This cookbook provides a solid foundation by covering all the knowledge needed to work with PrimeFaces components in the real world.

About this title

About the Author

Mert Caliskan

Mert Caliskan is a software stylist living in Ankara, Turkey. He has more than 10 years of expertise in software development with the architectural design of Enterprise Java web applications. He is an advocate of open source for software projects such as PrimeFaces and has also been a committer and founder of various others. He is the coauthor of the first edition of this book. He is also the coauthor of Beginning Spring by Wiley Publications. He is the founder of AnkaraJUG, which is the most active JUG in Turkey that has been having monthly meetups for 3 years now. In 2014, he was entitled a Java Champion for his achievements. He is also a Sun Certified Java professional since 2007. He does part-time lecturing at Hacettepe University on enterprise web application architecture and web services. He shares his knowledge at national and international conferences, such as JDays 2015, JavaOne 2013, JDC2010, and JSFDays'08. You can reach Mert via twitter at @mertcal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784393428
• ISBN 13: 9781784393427
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 412