When you try to apply a custom skin to a custom table row the parent Skin TableRowSkin generates an error. The application I am writing needs to be able to drag rows of data between tables which is why a custom row is needed. I have attached a demonstration with complete source code to demonstrate the production of this error. I initially thought my code may be flawed so I posted the issue in the forums but received no response which makes be believe this is likely a JavaFX bug. I am aware that this can be done without a skin but being able to swap the skin for this feature would be useful. Below is the error which is generated.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception in Application start method
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:168)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.access$000(LauncherImpl.java:17)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$1.run(LauncherImpl.java:55)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.TableRowSkin.initBindings(TableRowSkin.java:90)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.TableRowSkin.<init>(TableRowSkin.java:55)
at javafxapplication.CustomTableRowSkin.<init>(CustomTableRowSkin.java:15)
at javafxapplication.CustomTableRow.<init>(CustomTableRow.java:13)
at javafxapplication.JavaFXApplication.createRow(JavaFXApplication.java:27)
at javafxapplication.JavaFXApplication$1.call(JavaFXApplication.java:68)
at javafxapplication.JavaFXApplication$1.call(JavaFXApplication.java:65)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.TableViewSkin.createCell(TableViewSkin.java:437)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.TableViewSkin$1.run(TableViewSkin.java:50)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.TableViewSkin$1.run(TableViewSkin.java:48)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.VirtualFlow.getCell(VirtualFlow.java:1192)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.VirtualFlow.getCellLength(VirtualFlow.java:1218)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.VirtualFlow$3.run(VirtualFlow.java:405)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.VirtualFlow$3.run(VirtualFlow.java:403)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.PositionMapper.computeViewportOffset(PositionMapper.java:112)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.VirtualFlow.layoutChildren(VirtualFlow.java:774)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:855)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:862)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:862)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:862)
at javafx.scene.Scene.doLayoutPass(Scene.java:401)
at javafx.scene.Scene.preferredSize(Scene.java:969)
at javafx.scene.Scene.impl_preferredSize(Scene.java:993)
at javafx.stage.Window.sizeToScene(Window.java:106)
at javafx.stage.Window$12.invalidated(Window.java:473)
at javafx.beans.property.BooleanPropertyBase.markInvalid(BooleanPropertyBase.java:57)
at javafx.beans.property.BooleanPropertyBase.set(BooleanPropertyBase.java:108)
at javafx.stage.Window.setVisible(Window.java:514)
at javafx.stage.Stage.setVisible(Stage.java:105)
at javafxapplication.JavaFXApplication.start(JavaFXApplication.java:93)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$3.run(LauncherImpl.java:127)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$3.run(PlatformImpl.java:87)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$2.run(PlatformImpl.java:65)
at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.access$100(WinApplication.java:29)
at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication$1$1.run(WinApplication.java:49)
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