[Fwd: JavaFX and JDK for ARM]

[Chris Newland]

Hi Martijn,

I don't believe so. I'm not a "Group Member" of AdoptOpenJDK yet under the
OpenJDK bylaws so I imagine only the initial members were added to the
Cloudbees.

Happy to manage an OpenJFX/ARM build instance if you want to grant me
permissions.

Cheers,

Chris

On Thu, January 29, 2015 09:02, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> 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
>
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