HEADS-UP: jfxrt.jar moving to jre/lib/ext

[Tom Schindl]

Am 24.01.13 18:25, schrieb Richard Bair:
>> 3) Tools, scripts, programs that "know" where jfxrt.jar is relative to the root of the JRE will have to be adjusted accordingly, to either look for it in lib/ext or, if appropriate, just rely on the fact that it is now on the classpath. For example, when opening a JavaFX project in NB 7.2, it may not recognize your JDK8 as being JavaFX-capable. A future version of NB will add support for JDK 8 / FX 8.
> 
> We should make sure this is posted widely and easily discoverable via Google searches on "why doesn't Java 8 work with FX" or something along those lines.
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>> 4) Because we still include the javafx.embed.swt package in jfxrt.jar -- see http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-23041 -- applications that access javafx.embed.swt.FXCanvas will need to put the swt.jar library on the boot classpath in order for it to run.
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> Putting swt.jar on the normal class path won't cut it?

If get classloaders right no.

Bootclassloader
  + Extclassloader
    + ApplicationClassloader

So Extclassloader can only see classes from Bootclassloader for normal
Java-SWT apps SWT on the bootclassloader will do it, for SWT-OSGi apps
(which is the majority out there) this will cause extrem troubles
because they ship swt as an OSGi-Bundle and we'll suddenly have 2
SWT-Jars on the classpath then:

* FXCanvas will load the one from the bootclasspath
* Java-Code will load the one from the OSGi-Application-Classpath

=> The application will blow up completely, so for SWT-OSGi-Application
giving the advice to put it on the bootclasspath is a very bad idea.

Tom


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