Making JavaFX Development Faster

[Richard Bair]

I cannot imagine what internal stuff Michael could be using or when that was added. 

On Oct 26, 2012, at 7:42 AM, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at> wrote:

> Not only the memory argument is import.
> 
> What if a customer says i have to run on his j9-jvm?
> 
> I can be wrong but IIRC Michael told me at JavaOne that the properties
> code is even using internal (sun....) stuff so even simply dropping in
> the jar to the j9 classpath is doomed to fail.
> 
> And beside that using FX-Observables and e.g. JPA don't like each other
> i guess because of all those lazy list stuff, ... .
> 
> Tom
> 
> Am 22.10.12 19:23, schrieb Werner Lehmann:
>> Richard,
>> 
>> On 22.10.2012 17:38, Richard Bair wrote:
>>> MyObject obj = new MyObject();
>>> obj = BlackMagic.makeObservable(obj);
>> 
>> I'd like to see the implementation of BlackMagic ;-)  (cglib stuff?)
>> 
>>> However, the javafx beans package and collections and such are part
>>> of the "base" module -- ie: they could be separated from the rest of
>>> javafx and safely used on the server side or elsewhere. Why not just
>>> use properties and such on the server side definition of classes? Or
>>> are those classes being auto-generated and thus not taking observable
>>> properties into account?
>> 
>> Currently I want to avoid requiring customers to install the FX runtime
>> serverside. That will be a moot point with JRE 7+. Which does not help
>> the 6.x customers, especially if they are on WebLogic which is usually
>> tied to a specific major version.
>> 
>> Another aspect is the footprint regarding memory and bandwidth.
>> Obviously a StringProperty requires more bytes than a String. This is
>> not an issue (usually) when I want to display a relatively short list of
>> beans in the UI. It gets noticeable when the server suddenly needs +X
>> megabytes, the instantion of objects needs +Y ms (also affects
>> deserialization), and sending them over the network takes +Z ms...
>> 
>> Werner
> 
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