4.4.5. Creating and Using Your Own Skin File

Create a file. In it, define skin constants to be used by style classes (see Section 4.4.4, “Skin Parameters Tables in RichFaces”). The name of the skin file should follow this format: <name>.skin.properties. (For examples of this file, see the RichFaces predefined skin parameters: blueSky, classic, deepMarine, etc. These files are located in the richfaces-impl-xxxxx.jar archive in the /META-INF/skins folder.

Add the skin definition <contex-param> to the web.xml of your application, like so:

...
<context-param>
     <param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name>
     <param-value>name</param-value>
</context-param>
...

...
<context-param>
     <param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name>
     <param-value>name</param-value>
</context-param>
...

Place your <name>.skin.properties file in either your /META-INF/skins or /WEB-INF/classes directory.