[Fwd: JavaFX and JDK for ARM]

Thu Jan 29 10:48:51 UTC 2015

Hi Chris,

The Cloudbees instance isn't an official piece of OpenJDK infrastructure
(we'll be discussing it's future at FOSDEM), so you don't have to be a
group member.  Ping me your Cloudbees username and I'll get you added.

Mani also mentioned he'd be able to give you a hand as our resident
Cloudbees expert!

Cheers,
Martijn

On 29 January 2015 at 09:42, Chris Newland <cnewland at chrisnewland.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Martijn
> >
> >
>
>
>