As a UI framework developer it is part of my job to provide ways to customize the appearance and behavior of my controls. In many cases this is done by allowing the framework user to register a factory on a control. In the past I would have created a factory interface for this and provided one or more default implementations within the framework.
These things are done differently in JavaFX and I have started to embrace it for my own work. JavaFX uses a generic interface called javafx.util.Callback wherever a piece of code is needed that produces a result (R) for a given parameter (P).
The interface looks like this: