tableView.getColumns().addAll(tableColumn, tableColumn);

The line above causes an infinite loop of exceptions and causes the JavaFX application to lock up. It probably should be an exception, but shouldn't cause an infinite loop.

Here's the exception:

SEVERE: javafx.scene.control.Control loadSkinClass Failed to load skin 'StringProperty [bean: TableRow[id=null, styleClass=cell indexed-cell table-row-cell], name: skinClassName, value: com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.TableRowSkin]' for control TableRow[id=null, styleClass=cell indexed-cell table-row-cell]
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Children: duplicate children added: parent = TableRowSkin[id=null, styleClass=cell indexed-cell table-row-cell]
at javafx.scene.Parent$1.onProposedChange(Parent.java:307)
at com.sun.javafx.collections.VetoableObservableList.setAll(VetoableObservableList.java:90)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.TableRowSkin.updateCells(TableRowSkin.java:266)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.TableRowSkin.<init>(TableRowSkin.java:88)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
at javafx.scene.control.Control.loadSkinClass(Control.java:1044)
at javafx.scene.control.Control.access$500(Control.java:70)
at javafx.scene.control.Control$12.invalidated(Control.java:972)
at javafx.beans.property.StringPropertyBase.markInvalid(StringPropertyBase.java:127)
at javafx.beans.property.StringPropertyBase.set(StringPropertyBase.java:161)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleableStringProperty.set(StyleableStringProperty.java:71)
at javafx.scene.control.Control$12.set(Control.java:964)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleableStringProperty.applyStyle(StyleableStringProperty.java:59)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleableStringProperty.applyStyle(StyleableStringProperty.java:31)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleableProperty.set(StyleableProperty.java:70)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleHelper.transitionToState(StyleHelper.java:902)
at javafx.scene.Node.impl_processCSS(Node.java:7415)
at javafx.scene.Parent.impl_processCSS(Parent.java:1146)
at javafx.scene.control.Control.impl_processCSS(Control.java:1154)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.VirtualFlow.setCellIndex(VirtualFlow.java:1598)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.VirtualFlow.getCell(VirtualFlow.java:1500)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.VirtualFlow.getCellLength(VirtualFlow.java:1523)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.VirtualFlow$3.call(VirtualFlow.java:478)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.VirtualFlow$3.call(VirtualFlow.java:476)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.PositionMapper.computeViewportOffset(PositionMapper.java:143)
at com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.VirtualFlow.layoutChildren(VirtualFlow.java:1001)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1018)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1028)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1028)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1028)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1028)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1028)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1028)
at javafx.scene.Scene.layoutDirtyRoots(Scene.java:516)
at javafx.scene.Scene.doLayoutPass(Scene.java:487)
at javafx.scene.Scene.access$3900(Scene.java:170)
at javafx.scene.Scene$ScenePulseListener.pulse(Scene.java:2203)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.firePulse(Toolkit.java:363)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.pulse(QuantumToolkit.java:460)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit$9.run(QuantumToolkit.java:329)
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$3$1.run(WinApplication.java:73)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)