You can catch up on the back story here: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2013-March/006725.html
-- Jonathan On 30/08/2013 7:06 a.m., Felix Bembrick wrote: > I was not privy to the original discussion but I am lead to believe that > Builders are no longer considered fashionable and that we are advised not to > use them. > > While I realise that every type of Node basically needed its own Builder, > could someone please outline why this situation has arisen? Is it something > to do with "fluent APIs" themselves or some other reason? > > Thanks, > > Felix
