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How to develop a large application in JavaFX?

922980Nov 14 2014 — edited Nov 19 2014

The many  demos, tutorials, and examples for JavaFX, FXML, etc. typically consist of a few small files, .java and .fxml.

I have been developing an NLP system that has many classes, dozens of data classes, hundreds of methods and a number of tables in my PostgreSQL DBs.

I've been wanting to "put a face" a UI, on the system, and now, with JavaFX, I should be able to do just that.

I've written some simple examples to get me familiar with JavaFX, mostly using Scene Builder.

I would like to create GUIs much in the spirit of Eclipse, with various panels, toolbars, tabs, etc.

All the containers and controls I need are available in Scene Builder.

But the big question here is how to build such a large GUI/System.

How should it be modularized?  Multiple controllers, fxml  files, etc.?

How would I link to the resources I've already created?

BTW: I don't use a CLI in my current system.

The driving parameters are in property files, json, or in the DB tables themselves.

So what have people found in the way of an approach to JavaFX that can scale up?

I know people have done this sort of thing, I just haven't found discussions or examples of it.

Thanks!

- Bob Futrelle

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