Binding issue between POJO properties and JavaFX components

Question

Currently, what I want to do is use bidirectionnal binding between POJO properties and JavaFX components.
For example, if the property is a String, a Textfield will be generated and binded with it.
My POJOs are generated by JAXB.
To do that, I proceeded as followed :
In order to make the binding works I changed the default generation of JAXB
I created a factory which takes a class instance at input and return a Map containing the POJO properties as key and the JavaFX components as value
I displayed this map in a JFXPanel
Here is a sample of the factory  :
public static Map<Field, Node> createComponents(Object obj) throws NoSuchMethodException
           Map<Field, Node> map = new LinkedHashMap<Field, Node>();
           for (final Field field : obj.getClass().getDeclaredFields())
               @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
               Class fieldType = field.getType();
               if (fieldType.equals(boolean.class) || (fieldType.equals(Boolean.class))) //Boolean
                   map.put(field, createBool(obj, field));
               else if (fieldType.equals(int.class) || (fieldType.equals(Integer.class))) //Integer
                  map.put(field, createInt(obj, field));
               else if (fieldType.equals(BigInteger.class)) //BigInteger
                  map.put(field, createBigInt(obj, field));
               else if (fieldType.equals(long.class) || fieldType.equals(Long.class)) //Long
                  map.put(field, createLong(obj, field));
               else if (fieldType.equals(String.class)) //String
                  map.put(field, createString(obj, field));
           return map;  
public static Node createBool(Object obj, final Field field) throws NoSuchMethodException
   System.out.println(field.getType().getSimpleName() + " spotted");
   JavaBeanBooleanProperty boolProperty = JavaBeanBooleanPropertyBuilder.create().bean(obj).name(field.getName()).build();
  boolProperty.addListener(new ChangeListener<Boolean>() {
   @Override
   public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Boolean> arg0, Boolean arg1, Boolean arg2)
  prettyPrinter(field, arg1, arg2);
   CheckBox cb = new CheckBox();
  cb.setText(" : " + field.getName());
  cb.selectedProperty().bindBidirectional(boolProperty);
   return cb;}
So, the problem I have is : Sometimes the binding will work and sometimes it won't. For example, the binding is working unless I changed the declaration property order in the POJO, or unless I resized the panel where components are displayed.
Does anybody have an idea of what I am doing wrong ?
Thanks,
Bastien

Answer 1

You may like to look at the PropertySheet from ControlsFX.
Not sure if it does what you want, but the concept appears similar.