PrimeFaces is the Best Rich UI component library for JSF
based applications. Also PrimeFaces has a wonderful showcase (http://www.primefaces.org/showcase/ui/home.jsf
) and documentation (http://www.primefaces.org/documentation.html
) on their website.
When I first heard about "PrimeFaces Cookbook” I was
very excited because this is the first book on PrimeFaces and usually cookbooks
contain lot of tips for commonly faced issues and recipes for common use cases.
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I read the "PrimeFaces Cookbook" and I find it
very useful for the developers using PrimeFaces.
Following is detailed opinion on this book:
Chapter-1 starts
with a quick introduction on how to install/configure PrimeFaces libraries
followed by some important recipes on common use cases like partial form
processing, I18N, resource ordering etc.
Chapter-2 focused
on theming support and how to make the applications to support multiple themes
using Theme Switcher. Also author gave very useful info on look and feel issues
with IE browser and how to fix them. This will be greatly helpful to those who have to support their application on IE browser.
Chapter-3 focused
on various PrimeFaces input components with plenty of examples.
Chapter-4
explained how to use various types of panels like Panel, PanelGrid, Accordian,
TabbedPanels etc. In this chapter we can also learn how to create complex
layouts as well.
Chapter-5 is on
my favorite topic DataTables. You can learn a lot about DataTables, how to use
Pagination, Sorting, LazyLoading etc with lot of examples.
But I wish there is more information on the PrimeFaces
DataTable Component classes like DataModel, LazyDataModel, DualListModel etc in the book itself. But good news is you can find all those details on
the primefaces-cookbook project source code on GitHub.
Chapter-6 Sophisticated
Navigation system is a key for any Rich User Interfaces applications. Authors
did a wonderful job in explaining about various Menu options that PrimeFaces
provides.
Chapter-7, 8 and 9
focused on advanced UI components and use cases like CroppingImages, Uploading
Files, Drag&Drop features and drawing charts. Depending on the type of
application these chapters comes handy.
Chapter-10 this is the chapter that you are going to love the most,no wonders if you loudly say that if this book was already there I wouldn't have spend so many hours working on some tricky things. If you are struck up with some tricky PrimeFaces issue then first thing I suggest is do refer this chapter.
Overall,
the "PrimeFaces Cookbook" is a wonderful book to refer if you are doing
JSF development (I didn't mention PrimeFaces here because you will obviously
use PrimeFaces as it is the Best UI Component Library available :-))
Just get the "PrimeFaces Cookbook" book and Clone
https://github.com/ova2/primefaces-cookbook and Rock!!!
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