OpenJFX in a post-Jigsaw world

[Chris Newland]

There's been some discussion on the London Java Community Slack chat about
JavaFX with OpenJDK so I made some enquiries over on openjfx-dev and here
is the Oracle response regarding OpenJFX / Jigsaw.

Cheers,

Chris

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: OpenJFX / JDK 9 questions
From:    "Kevin Rushforth" <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>
Date:    Tue, August 18, 2015 23:23
To:      "John C. Turnbull" <ozemale at ozemail.com.au>
Cc:      cnewland at chrisnewland.com
         openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
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Chris' questions are more about the build environment. To answer some of
the specific points.

> Longer term, will OpenJFX ever become a sub-project or module in the
OpenJDK
> repository?
>

Very likely, yes. Long term we would like the openjfx "rt" repository to
be a "jfx" repo in the openjdk forest. This is not planned for 9,
though. Probably for JDK 10 (but perhaps could be done in a 9 update
release).

> Is there any plan for a unified build system for OpenJDK and OpenJFX to
> produce a binary that runs JavaFX out of the box?
>

Some of the Jigsaw work is heading in that direction. The current plan
is for a JDK configure option to take a set of (pre-built) JavaFX
modules and import them into the JDK build, as opposed to the current
"overlay the javafx bits at the end" approach that JDK 8 uses.

> Currently the gradle openZip method makes it easy to create builds that
> unpack into OpenJDK / Zulu JDK but this assumes a pre-Jigsaw (JRE)
structure
> and doesn't work with JDK9. Shall I submit a bug?

We are in the process of making major changes for Jigsaw, so anything we
do for the "openZip" task will be a stop-gap until that work is
complete. Go ahead and file the bug, though. If nothing else, it will
serve as a reminder to test the build with OpenJDK + OpenJFX (without
either of the closed bits).

-- Kevin

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openjfx-dev [mailto:openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On
Behalf Of
> Chris Newland
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 10:07 PM
> To: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: OpenJFX / JDK 9 questions
>
> Hi,
>
> Please could someone briefly explain the changes to OpenJFX under JDK9 /
> modularisation / jigsaw?
>
> I've been trying to answer some questions about this in the London Java
> Community (JUG) and have added 8u40 stable binaries to my OpenJFX build
> server as that was requested: http://108.61.191.178/
>
> I understand work is already happening under JEP253 to sort out the public
> APIs.
>
> Longer term, will OpenJFX ever become a sub-project or module in the
OpenJDK
> repository?
>
> Is there any plan for a unified build system for OpenJDK and OpenJFX to
> produce a binary that runs JavaFX out of the box?
>
> Currently the gradle openZip method makes it easy to create builds that
> unpack into OpenJDK / Zulu JDK but this assumes a pre-Jigsaw (JRE)
structure
> and doesn't work with JDK9. Shall I submit a bug?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris