Jigsaw delayed

[Kevin Rushforth]

We had hoped to make JavaFX available on the boot classpath as a default 
part of both the JDK and JRE, but ran out of time to work through all of 
the issues (additionally, there was some concern about compatibility). 
The plan is to complete this integration for JDK 8 so that FX will "just 
be there" for all users of the JDK and JRE.

-- Kevin


Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
> Another thought on this topic. Will this delay to Jigsaw affect the plan to
> fully and properly integrate JavaFX into the JRE?
>
> By full and proper I mean in Java 8 will we still have this odd scenario
> where JavaFX is 'installed' but not available on the path by default or
> will it all just finally work out of the box?
>
> As an aside, I'm still a little confused about this restriction of not
> adding JFX to path for the JDK install. Maybe it makes sense for the
> end-user JRE installation (I'm still dubious about the need for this, but
> with Igor's packaging tools it is less of a problem) but I just don't see
> how it makes sense when installing the JDK?
>
> If I explicitly download and install JDK7u6 and install this on my machine,
> how could it possibly cause any problems for JavaFX to be on the path for
> this JDK? At the very least could we not have a tick box on the final step
> of the JFX SDK install that says "Make JFX available on the JDK path?".
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Igor Nekrestyanov <
> igor.nekrestyanov at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On 7/25/12 3:03 PM, Richard Bair wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> That's good to hear. I hope the legal side of this will be included in
>>>       
>>>>> this work so that end developers can do this manual modularisation as well.
>>>>> I believe currently the legals prevent us from stripping out most of the
>>>>> bits of a jre even for cobundling (or so I've been told).
>>>>>
>>>>> Awesome scenario would be to have a stripped minimal jre available for
>>>>> download as a zip and then all the other jars/dlls available for manual
>>>>> inclusion. Ie opt in, rather than opt out.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> IMHO, this is unlikely as stripped JRE will not pass TCK tests. This is
>>>> where you need to wait for jigsaw.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> And that is where we are pushing for a change.
>>>
>>>       
>> Ah, good to know :)
>>
>> -igor
>>
>>     
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>       
>>