When we were talking about Scenegraph, we saw how conveniently UI is represented by a tree graph structure. What else is good to describe tree structures? XML!
That is what FXML is all about. It allows us to describe the UI by the XML files. It's a common approach to describing static UI pages. For example, XAML for C#, or Android GUI, uses a similar approach.
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