Making JavaFX Development Faster (original) (raw)

Richard Bair richard.bair at oracle.com
Fri Oct 26 06:39:38 PDT 2012

Milan,

Can you take a look at the patch? Greg has recently left (although I'm hoping he is still on the forums / mailing list!), and Milan is taking over responsibility for FXML. He'll probably need a bit to get up to speed. But do bug him to look at the issue again :-)

Richard

On Oct 22, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Danno Ferrin <danno.ferrin at shemnon.com> wrote:

The controller doesn't map too well. We would need to write something custom to stand up the MVC Group in context of a FXML and inject into the FXML the controller, which is not always were the listeners live. My perspective is that the controller in FXML is more of a ViewModel from the MVVM pattern than a logic controller, which is what Griffon leans it's Controllers towards. It's not hard and fast, you can make either do the other approach, but structurally it biases the code in that direction.

That being said, I do have a bug sitting in limbo ( http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-25559 - with a patch!) that would allow for easier integration of FXML into typical Griffon MV Groups. On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Mark Fortner <phidias51 at gmail.com> wrote:

The article that Will pointed out was interesting. However, the developer would still end up having to write code to make their POJOs or POJO collections observable. It would be nice if there was a "dynamic proxy" that automagically made any class you sent it observable. Not sure how doable that is -- just thinking off the top of my head.

The one thing that you would need to avoid is making your POJO have any JavaFX dependencies. On the issue of RAD tooling, it sounds like the Griffon team is making some progress with respect to making JavaFX easier. I'm not sure how well Griffon's Service and Controller interfaces map to JavaFX's Controller. Cheers, Mark

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com wrote: Another option I would guess is to not use observable objects at all, but you can still use binding (the property adapters should work with that). Even with a list view, which has an ObservableList, you can add items form a normal list and vice versa. On Oct 18, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Mark Fortner wrote: One of the big timewasters when it comes to JavaFX projects taking your server-side POJOs, creating Observable versions of them, and creating forms, and controllers for them. If you've been doing JEE development in the past 5 years then you're probably already using Spring ROO, Grails, or some other RAD tooling that makes this type of work trivial in the web world. All of these artifacts are usually generated directly from the POJOs. So I'm curious if anyone knows of any tools that make that process easier and faster?

Cheers, Mark -- There is nothing that will hold me back. I know who I am.... I remember wher I came from, and I feel stronger for knowing. Zane, Ninja of Ice. Ninjago S01E07

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