Extending Builders: Layout Builders

[Tom Eugelink]

On 2012-11-27 01:51, Richard Bair wrote:
>> But I'd rather use a different approach: provide (de)serializers that help map the FXML onto the objects. I see FXML as a layer on top of the API and good software development teachings say that lower layers should not have any knowledge of higher layers, so I feel really really bad about polluting the Java API to support FXML. Providing glue might be a better approach. Java has standard plugin-style solutions in place, like META-INF/services, so it should be easily possible to provide plugins together with the components that help in those places where simple serialization does not cut it.
> Isn't this the role that the builders already play in the FXML deserialization routine? My understanding was that people would be able to create custom builders for their classes (and we could provide custom builders for ours) such that you would be able to map such things from the FXML?
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I don't know. This is the first time I've heard of FXML builders, otherwise I would have used them for MigPane. I did not find anything on the google, do you have a reference to some documentation or example?

Tom