MVC Pattern in JavaFX With Scene Builder

Question

I\'m new to JavaFX and am struggling to create a proper MVC architecture given my current setup. I clicked together a UI using Scene Builder and designated a Controller class. <

Answer 1

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-- View is a primary Stage provided by the JavaFX platform at start up. This stage has the only Scene (you have created and set) which in turn has a parent node content root (your variable). This root node is set by FXMLLoader and represents the layout/node structure defined in the "PortalUI.fxml" file.
In other words Stage -> Scene -> PortalUI.fxml(root) will define the view part.

-- Controller is the class that implements Initializable and that you specified in your PortalUI.fxml file with fx:controller=" " attribute. The class you have specified there (PortalController I suppose) will be created and invoked its initialize() method by the FXMLLoader. Namely the Controller will be created when the PortalUI.fxml file is loaded, so you don't need to create and initialize it yourself. To get the created/initialized instance of the controller from the FXMLLoader look the Accessing FXML controller class.

-- Model is the underlying data structure stored and managed by the controller. It can be anything representing the "data". For example, Person, PortalInfo etc. classes.