Preferred way to test custom builds with latest JDK 8 binaries

[Kevin Rushforth]

 > Should the openjfxrt.jar be a drop in replacement for jfxrt.jar already?

No, it isn't (and won't be for a few months). If you put openjfxrt.jar 
and jfxrt.jar on the boot classpath with -Xbootclasspath/a does that 
work? I would expect that it should.

-- Kevin


Sven Reimers wrote:
> Just tried it, but it tells me
>
> ClassNotFoundException com/sun/javafx/tk/quantum/QuantumToolkit
>
> and because of this I think
>
> RuntimeException: No Toolkit found
>
> I think this is because this is still not open sourced and as such 
> missing in my openjfxrt.jar..
>
> Should the openjfxrt.jar be a drop in replacement for jfxrt.jar already?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> -Sven
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Kevin Rushforth 
> <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com <mailto:kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     > -prepending bootclasspath: does not work classloading fails
>
>     I would suggest appending openjfxrt.jar to the bootclasspath
>     (there is a known bug when prepending...I'll dig up the bug ID if
>     you are interested).
>
>     -- Kevin
>
>
>
>     Sven Reimers wrote:
>>     Update:
>>
>>     I tried so far:
>>
>>     -endorsed: does not work classloading fails
>>     -prepending bootclasspath: does not work classloading fails
>>
>>     So it seems I need to have the ability to create full jfxrt.jar else both
>>     approaces fail.
>>
>>     So any ideas besides creating a local copy of my jdk and patching the
>>     original jfxrt.jar in some way to incorporate my changes?
>>
>>     Thanks
>>
>>     -Sven
>>
>>
>>     On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Sven Reimers <sven.reimers at gmail.com> <mailto:sven.reimers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>       
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>     since the latest binaries (b75) now have JavaFX on it's classpath by
>>>     default, I am interested in the best (quick) way to test changes using
>>>     custom builds with openjfxrt.jar.
>>>
>>>     Any ideas?
>>>
>>>     -Sven
>>>
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