Fwd: FXML Patterns / best practices

[Greg Brown]

> I think the fx:root solution is inferior to the <param> solution because it takes a halting step toward the general solution -- there is a namespace of objects and FXML expressions and references should be able to refer to them.

I'm confused. FXML already has a namespace of objects, and expressions and references *can* refer to them. A controller is not required for this.

The controller is just an easy way to get typed information out of an FXML document, and optionally associate event handlers with elements defined in the document. There are certainly other ways to do this. The <param> concept is one possibility. If we can understand where the existing design falls short then we can more effectively address it.