PrimeFaces Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Getting Started with PrimeFaces
• Introduction
• Setting up and configuring the PrimeFaces library
• AJAX basics with Process and Update
• Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (L10n)
• Improved resource ordering
• PrimeFaces scaffolding with Spring Roo

• Chapter 2: Theming Concept
• Introduction
• Understanding the structural and skinning CSS
• Installing themes
• Customizing theme styles
• Customizing default styles on input components
• Adjusting the font and size throughout the web application
• Why does the theme look different in Internet Explorer?
• Simple ways to create a new theme
• Default stateless theme switcher
• Alternative stateful theme switchers

• Chapter 3: Enhanced Inputs and Selects
• Introduction
• Formatted input with inputMask
• Auto suggestion with autoComplete
• Usable features of inputTextArea
• Discovering selectBooleanCheckbox and selectManyCheckbox
• Basic and advanced calendar scenarios
• Spinner – different ways to provide input
• Slider – different ways to provide input
• Rich text editing with editor
• Advanced editing with in-place editor
• Enhanced password input
• Star-based rating input

• Chapter 4: Grouping Content with Panels
• Introduction
• Grouping content with a standard panel
• Panel grid with colspan and rowspan support
• Vertical stacked panels with accordion
• Displaying overflowed content with scrollPanel
• Working with a tabbed panel
• Grouping of buttons and more with toolbar
• Simulating the portal environment with dashboard
• Creating complex layouts

• Chapter 5: Data Iteration Components
• Introduction
• Selecting rows in dataTable
• Sorting and filtering data in dataTable
• In-cell editing with dataTable
• Conditional coloring in dataTable
• Handling tons of data – LazyDataModel
• Listing data with dataList
• Listing data with pickList
• Listing data with orderList
• Visualizing data with tree
• Visualizing the data with treeTable
• Exporting data in various formats
• Visualizing data with carousel
• Visualizing data with ring

• Chapter 6: Endless Menu Variations
• Introduction
• Static and dynamic positioned menus
• Creating a programmatic menu
• Context menu with nested items
• Context menu integration
• SlideMenu – menu in iPod style
• TieredMenu – submenus in nested overlays
• MegaMenu – multicolumn menu
• PanelMenu – hybrid of accordion and tree
• Accessing commands via Menubar
• Displaying checkboxes in SelectCheckboxMenu
• Dock menu for Mac OS fans

• Chapter 7: Working with Files and Images
• Introduction
• Basic, automatic, and multiple file upload
• Uploading a file with drag-and-drop
• Downloading files
• Cropping images
• Displaying a collection of images
• Capturing images with photoCam
• Comparing images

• Chapter 8: Drag Me, Drop Me
• Introduction
• Making a component draggable
• Restricting dragging by axis, grid, and containment
• Snapping to the edges of nearest elements
• Defining droppable targets
• Restricting dropping by tolerance and acceptance
• AJAX-enhanced drag-and-drop
• Integrating drag-and-drop with data iteration components

• Chapter 9: Creating Charts and Maps
• Introduction
• Creating a line chart
• Creating a bar chart
• Creating a pie chart
• Creating a bubble chart
• Creating a donut (doughnut) chart
• Creating a meter gauge chart
• Creating an OHLC chart
• Updating live data in charts with polling
• Interacting with charts through AJAX
• Creating dynamic image streaming programmatically
• Mapping with Google Maps

• Chapter 10: Miscellaneous, Advanced Use Cases
• Introduction
• The power of the PrimeFaces selectors
• Programmatic updating and scrolling with RequestContext
• Two ways to trigger JavaScript execution
• Adding AJAX callback parameters – validation within a dialog
• Navigating to another page in AJAX calls
• Polling – sending periodical AJAX requests
• Blocking page pieces during long-running AJAX calls
• Remembering current menu selection
• Controlling form submission by DefaultCommand
• Clever focus management in forms
• Layout pitfalls with menus and dialogs
• Targetable messages with severity levels
• Leveraging Schedule's lazy loading feature

• Index