Making JavaFX Development Faster

[Danno Ferrin]

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
> >
> >
>



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