I have a swing project that uses many JTables to display all sorts of things from text to panels to a mix of buttons and check boxes. I was able to do this by overwriting the table cell renderer to return generic JComponents. My question is can a similar table be made using JavaFx?

I want to update all my tables in the project to use JavaFx to support gestures mostly. It seems that TableView is the JavaFx component to use and I tried adding buttons to it but when displayed it shows the string value of the button, not the button itself. It looks like I have to overwrite the row factory or cell factory to do what I want but there are not a lot of examples. Here is the code I used as an example that displays the button as a string.

import javax.swing.JButton;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleStringProperty;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.collections.ObservableList;
import javafx.geometry.Insets;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.control.TableColumn;
import javafx.scene.control.TableView;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.control.cell.PropertyValueFactory;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.scene.text.Font;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class GestureEvents extends Application {

    private TableView<Person> table = new TableView<Person>();
    private final ObservableList<Person> data =
        FXCollections.observableArrayList(
            new Person("Jacob", "Smith", "jacob.smith@example.com","The Button"),
            new Person("Isabella", "Johnson", "isabella.johnson@example.com","The Button"),
            new Person("Ethan", "Williams", "ethan.williams@example.com","The Button"),
            new Person("Emma", "Jones", "emma.jones@example.com","The Button"),
            new Person("Michael", "Brown", "michael.brown@example.com","The Button
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