JavaFX 8.0

[Kevin Rushforth]

Putting jfxrt.jar on the default classpath is planned for JDK8 / FX8.

-- Kevin


Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
>> The intent is that within the Java 9 timeframe we will have formed a JSR
>> and submitted JavaFX as a Java specification. The end result would be that
>> JavaFX would form a core part of Java (presumably in its own module by
>> then). Of course, we ship with Java 7 now, and will integrate more tightly
>> with Java 8 (as shown by the numbering announced today). Integrating more
>> tightly with Java 8 will allow us to, for example, make use of lambda's etc.
>>     
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> Cool but my real question is when will JFX be put on the classpath as part
> of the install of the JRE - will it be 7, 8 or 9? :)
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>> -- Jonathan
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>> On 16/08/2012 3:53 p.m., Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
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>>> Good move. Keeping track of which version is which is kind of hard a the
>>> moment. Marrying it to the JRE version number will help.
>>>
>>> Will be changing the 2.x versions going forward or just the 3.0 ones? i.e.
>>> will jfx 2.2.4 be jfx 7u10?
>>>
>>> What's with the shipping with 'JavaSE 9', I thought we were shipping now,
>>> and hoping to be fully integrated (i.e on the classpath) by Java 8.
>>> Wishful
>>> thinking?
>>>
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>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com>*
>>> *wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>       
>>>> Now that JavaFX 2.2 is out the door, we are creating 2.2.2 repositories
>>>> for the minor update due later this year, and the 8.0 repositories we'll
>>>> be
>>>> using for the release we had been calling 3.0. In essence, we felt that
>>>> since we are shipping with JavaSE and plan (pending JCP approval) to
>>>> become
>>>> part of JavaSE 9, that we needed to get our version numbers in line with
>>>> JavaSE. It can be quite confusing to explain to people, for example, that
>>>> JavaFX 2.2.2 ships with JavaSE 7u8. Or I could ask, what version of
>>>> JavaFX
>>>> will ship with JavaSE 7u10? 2.2.4 is probably the right answer, but heck,
>>>> even I don't always know.
>>>>
>>>> So instead, we've decided to bump up the version number for the next
>>>> major
>>>> release in order to align with JavaSE. It makes double sense since we are
>>>> aligned on release schedule as well.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Richard
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