JavaFX Languages and Markup - JavaFX 8: A Definitive Guide to Building Desktop, Mobile, and Embedded Java Clients - page 559

GroovyFX.start {
new SceneGraphBuilder().stage(visible: true) {
scene {
tableView(items: persons) {
tableColumn(property: "name", text: "Name", prefWidth: 160)
tableColumn(property: "age", text: "Age", prefWidth: 70)
tableColumn(property: "gender", text: "Gender", prefWidth: 90)
tableColumn(property: "dob", text: "Birth", prefWidth: 100,
type: Date,
converter: { d -> return dateFormat.format(d) })
}
}
}
}
Notice that the code to display the table is almost as short as the code to set up the data. The converter in
the last column to format the Date is a one-line operation in Groovy, but requires a CellValueFactory with an
implementation of a Callback interface, which is several lines of Java code saved.
Figure 13-8 displays the result of running this table application in Groovy.
Figure 13-8. Groovy Table demo with famous women in computers listed