FX temporarily broken in EA builds

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Mar 29 11:00:49 UTC 2017


If you are using the Jigsaw EA builds and are also using JavaFX then 
just an FYI that JavaFX will be temporarily broken for a few days. 
Moving the Module API from java.lang.reflect to java.lang 
(#MoveModuleAndLayerClasses [1]) is a mildly disruptive change for code 
using the new APIs. Phil Race has the JavaFX changes under control [2]. 
Assuming this move goes ahead then we will coordinate with the OpenJFX 
project when bringing the changes to JDK 9.

-Alan

[1] 
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/issues/#MoveModuleAndLayerClasses
[2] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2017-March/020372.html


More information about the jigsaw-dev mailing list