[Fwd: JavaFX and JDK for ARM]

[Martijn Verburg]

Don't see why not had great fun last night with Java 8 and Tinkerforge -
could see a future for Java and IOT first hand and it was great!  Except
for the boiler plate exception handling, but I digress :-)

On Thursday, 29 January 2015, Chris Newland <cnewland at chrisnewland.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Oracle have sadly had to scale back efforts on JavaFX for ARM but it looks
> like they are leaving it in a good state to be picked up and carried on by
> the IoT and OpenJFX communities.
>
> As a bit of a JavaFX fan and general IoT tinkerer I'll be volunteering to
> help out with this and it seems like a great opportunity for the Adopt
> group to attract IoT people towards OpenJDK.
>
> Would Adopt be willing to assist in this effort? I'm thinking mostly just
> OpenJDK+OpenJFX build assistance (wikis etc.) and use of the CloudBees CI
> farm.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: JavaFX and JDK for ARM
> From:    "Kevin Rushforth" <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com <javascript:;>>
> Date:    Wed, January 28, 2015 22:00
> To:      "openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net <javascript:;>" <
> openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net <javascript:;>>
>          "David Hill" <David.Hill at oracle.com <javascript:;>>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Many of you have been asking about the status of JavaFX in Linux/ARM
> embedded platforms. Starting with 8u33, JavaFX has been removed from
> both Oracle JDK for ARM and Oracle Java SE Embedded. [1]
>
> This is a resource trade off within Oracle. Included in that difficult
> trade off decision was the ongoing investment needed to properly support
> FX in a world where so much the hardware is not standardized -- it
> really is difficult to have enough hardware and testing resources
> committed to support FX on ARM. It is important to understand that when
> we say support, we are not talking about just "running" on a device like
> the Raspberry PI -- but providing support for paying customers that are
> almost certainly going to be using hardware that is customized for their
> embedded product.
>
> This does not mean that FX is going away on other platforms, and
> hopefully does not mean we will be disappearing from ARM completely.
>
> The core JavaFX team will continue working on the ARM port as resources
> permit, hopefully with involvement of members of the OpenJFX community.
> We have continued to demonstrate this commitment with the moving all of
> the JavaFX sources to OpenJFX, and maintaining an up to date OpenJFX
> Wiki which includes detailed articles on building for ARM.
>
> We will continue to do what we can to make it easier to build and
> overlay OpenJFX on top of the ARM JDKs.
>
> We hope to arrange for a external build of OpenJFX for ARM so that more
> people will be able to easily obtain a current build.
>
> Most of the FX source code is shared across all ports, and we will
> continue to do regular internal builds of linux-armv6hf to ensure that
> it runs. We will continue to maintain the Monocle glass platform in any
> case, as we use it for some of our dektop unit tests.
>
> We have received a lot of help from the community -- particularly for
> iOS and Android. Now we hope we can work together to keep Linux ARM
> viable and interesting.
>
> -- Kevin Rushforth and David Hill
>
>
> [1] For more information on the decision, I refer you to the following
> statement from Dalibor Topic and Donald Smith that Dalibor posted to the
> Raspberry Pi forum.
>
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=97367&p=678791#p678791
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Apologies for the terse release note regarding this change to the Oracle
> JDK for ARM and Oracle Java SE Embedded products. Clearly this change
> should have come with more context.
>
> Starting with Oracle JDK for ARM 8u33 and Oracle Java SE Embedded 8u33,
> JavaFX Embedded, a port of JavaFX 8 which was only available on
> Linux/ARM platforms, is not supported, and has been removed from these
> downloads.
>
> The complete source code for JavaFX Embedded has been contributed to the
> OpenJFX open source project in the OpenJDK community under the GPL v2
> with Classpath exception license. JavaFX development has been done in
> the OpenJDK open source community for some time now, enabling JavaFX
> developers to contribute back their changes to the source code, and
> produce their own OpenJFX binaries for their target platforms under
> their own responsibility.
>
> JavaFX continues to be provided as a fully supported part of the Oracle
> JDK 8 product on x86 platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac).
>
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>
>
>
>

-- 
Cheers,
Martijn