[Fwd: JavaFX and JDK for ARM]

[Martijn Verburg]

Chris - have you got admin rights on the Cloudbees instance?

On Thursday, 29 January 2015, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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>
>> Date:    Wed, January 28, 2015 22:00
>> To:      "openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net" <openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>>          "David Hill" <David.Hill at oracle.com>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>


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Cheers,
Martijn