What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introducing PrimeFaces Extensions, introduces the PrimeFaces Extensions library along with its major features, setup, and configuration details by creating a simple Hello World application. This chapter also explains how to work with the PrimeFaces Extension project resources, community support, and showcase details to explore the components.

Chapter 2, Enhanced Form and Editor Components, introduces a JobHub application with its functional requirements and application design. After that, it explores the basic input and advanced, dynamic form components, advisory tooltip, remoteCommand, and editor components for registration-based applications.

Chapter 3, Layout and Screen Blocking Components, explains the web page structure with the layout components, Waypoint as a scroll context component to work with the infinite content loading, and the screen blocking components, such as BlockUI and Spotlight, for better user interactions in the web interface.

Chapter 4, The Enriched Data Container and QR Code Components, covers the MasterDetail component to represent the hierarchical data, cascading grid items to layout the design with the FluidGrid component, and newly added QR codes for the enterprise marketing applications.

Chapter 5, Time Tracking and Scheduling Components, explores the highly configured TimePicker component in time-valued applications, the TimeLine component for scheduling and manipulating events, and internationalization support for both these time components in multilanguage based applications.

Chapter 6, Extended Data Reporting and Image Components, explains the data reporting functionality with the exporter component, customized data reporting through the CustomExporter implementation, and image manipulation features using the Image components.

Chapter 7, Common Utility Solutions, Error Handling, and Plugins, covers the common utility components and functions to resolve problems occurring in daily development, exception handling through the AjaxErrorHandler component, and Maven resource plugins to optimize web resources in JSF applications.

Appendix, Exploring Extensions Component Tags and Their Attributes, contains the attributes for various component names. This chapter is available as a bonus chapter and can be downloaded from http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/3247OS_Appendix.pdf.