RFR: 8375588: Enhanced property metadata

[Michael Strauß]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:25:42 GMT, Andy Goryachev <angorya at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I always found this design to be weird and unnecessary - these should be the properties/constraints of the container or the layout, not something stored in the child nodes. What happens when the said child is moved from one container to another??
> 
> It might be just me, but I fail to see the value of this proposal.

This is not a good argument against this proposal, as JavaFX has always had attached properties and they're not going away. This just makes the existing concept more useful by using the `Property` API instead of simple getters and setters.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/2015#issuecomment-3774647472