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Adding JavaFX Properties to a DTO

Posted on Mon 21 March 2016 in JavaFX • Tagged with annotations, DTO, FXForm2, JavaFX, JSR 303, UI, Wrapper

Now that I have understood what a DTO is good for, I'm thinking about ways to improve it. As they are right now, our DTOs are POJOs extended by JSR 303 annotations for defining constraints on their fields/methods. The annotations are duplicates of the annotations defined on the corresponding …

Can There Be Too Much of a Good Thing?

Posted on Wed 16 March 2016 in Design Patterns • Tagged with Java, JavaFX, UI

I recently worked on JavaFX UI code that was new to me. In order to extend the existing UI by a simple label, I needed access to a bean of the underlying data model. Much to my surprise, I had to dig deep to find it hidden under multiple layers …