The JavaFX class hierarchy

I have a question about the architecture of the JavaFX class. In fact, she should follow the pattern of composite named design looking for this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_pattern way somehow.

However if I want to draw the composite model of the JavaFX package I find myself sort of this way:

It seems that I can add children to buttons or labels. It was also possible with SWING. Why it has not been repaired? Is this a feature? On the other side window and the steps are now outside the model. In fact, they should be Parents I think. Why is it designed this way?

Hope someone can enlighten me upward. Thank you very much for your answers in advance.

> Actually it must follow the model of composite named design somehow.

I think you are trying to simplify things.

The JavaFX scene graph is a composite structure, but its design is subtler than a model composite vanilla.

The basic concept of the presentation of JavaFX is a scene graph.  A scene contains a node tree, which forms the scene graph.  Any node that is not a leaf is a parent.  The parent base has a public method getChildrenUnmodifable and a protected getChildren method.  This means that you cannot add outwardly new nodes to a Parent unless you provide additional APIs.  The only thing that can add children to the mother is the Parent or the subclass of the Parent.  So, there's some cache information to go on.

Some subclasses that act like editable containers expose their list of children to be publicly editable.  Usually, this is done by providing a public getChildren method.  A component, which is the root layout manager class, so in general, you can change the children of any pane layout is an example of such a class.  Conversely, if you have something that does not expose its getChildren method publicly, then external components cannot directly change the children of this thing.

Region and the control are examples of nodes that extend from Parent and do not provide a public API getChildren.  As a button is a control, if you can not directly change her children through the public API.  The only way to change the control's children is to provide your own skin or to use additional modifier of APIs that control could provide.  For example, a button can have a chart, you can set the button and thus provide an arbitrary node or node tree to the button.  However, that is not quite the same Exhibitor getChildren button, because the graph is just a node, and layout in the button can be handled by the button through the display of the content of the button setting.

OK, so JavaFX should not have had this complexity.  He could really go for a simpler approach where everything is a node, there are only a few types of nodes and HTML node types are not extensible example.  But he did not do this.  Instead, he went for a more detailed breakdown of the nodes of types, with each type supported by an object model providing State and functionality.  It's just a different approach.

> It seems that I can add children to buttons or labels.

Have you tried to do this by calling getChildren on one of them to get the list of children so you can change?  I bet that you could not do.

> Window and steps are now outside the model.

Yes, they are not part of the scene.

All this is just a metaphor for the theatre.  Imagine that you go to the theater to watch Romeo and Juliet.  You sit in your Chair and watch the scene, the curtain has just unveiled the first scene.  The scene contains a background (a square of city to Verona in Italy), some accessories (swords and a fountain) and actors (nobles) who move and speak and go away.  These things in the scene are the nodes of the scene.  The curtain goes down and another scene appears, then again and another scene.  Finally, you arrive at the scene of the balcony where Romeo climbs the wall to join Juliette.  Whenever the curtain goes down, a new scene is assembled, and when the curtain rises the new scene appears.  All the time, the scene never changes.  This isn't a part of the scene.  The scene is the scaffolding in which many different scenes will appear.

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