SJGP Software

If the DRY principle (Don't Repeat Yourself) is a core Best Practice in Object-Oriented Programming and software development, is there any way to define common user interface sections of an application in FXML? Can we avoid repeating the work that goes into laying out and controlling sections that are common across across many or even all screens? It would be beneficial and more consistent if their layout could be defined once and reused wherever necessary. Rather than redefine a menu bar or a collection of buttons on multiple screens, create them once and apply them as needed. Of course, this approach is nothing new. But as I explored JavaFX as a User Interface toolkit, it was straight-forward how to do this in code, but it was less clear how to do so using FXML. To speed up user interface development, we want to use the JavaFX layout manager Scene Builder. I am using v8.2 from Gluon - thank you Gluon for backing this important tool!