Cell factory in javafx

Question

I am using JavaFx 2.0 and Java 7. The question is regarding Table View in JavaFX.

The below sample code creates a firstName column and assigns cell factory and cell

Answer 1

You can also just modify the getter method of your data object. In your case this is the class Person, which holds firstName, lastName and (presumably) prefix.

Add a new method to the Person class:

public String getTotalName() {
  return this.prefix + " " + this.getLastName() + ", " + this.getFirstName();
}

and then just apply the CellValueFactory:

totalNameCol.setCellValueFactory(
  new PropertyValueFactory("totalName")
);

I find this more comfortable and than using callbacks.