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

[Danno Ferrin]

Random observation: JavaOne is September 22 - September 26, so I wouldn't
expect too much slip on the schedule.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com
> wrote:

> The schedule for JDK 8 is posted here:
>
> http://openjdk.java.net/**projects/jdk8/<http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/>
>
> The current planned GA date is Sep 9, 2013.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
>
>> Awesome. One small step, one giant leap! This will be a major annoyance
>> factor removed.
>>
>> I'm not too up on the release dates, what date is this scheduled to go
>> and be released to general public end users (as opposed to developer
>> releases)? I need to make some changes to the Maven plugin (and docco) as a
>> result of this, which I need to try and schedule around my availability.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Kevin Rushforth <
>> kevin.rushforth at oracle.com <mailto:kevin.rushforth@**oracle.com<kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Regarding the following JIRA issues:
>>
>>     http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/**browse/RT-26125<http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-26125>
>>
>>     http://ccc.us.oracle.com/**8003171 <http://ccc.us.oracle.com/8003171>(CCC for above work)
>>
>>     http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.**do?bug_id=8001533<http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8001533>(already
>>     implemented in the JDK)
>>
>>     As a heads-up, I plan to push the changes that will move jfxrt.jar
>>     from its present location in jre/lib to its new home in
>>     jre/lib/ext, hopefully in time for next week's EA build of JDK
>>     8-b75. In conjunction with the recent launcher changes, this will
>>     have some impact that may be visible to applications (mostly in a
>>     good way, but there are some caveats).
>>
>>     1) jfxrt.jar will now be on the default application classpath used
>>     by javac and java (and javap, etc). This means self-packaged apps
>>     and apps run from class files no longer need to explicitly add
>>     jfxrt.jar to the classpath.
>>
>>     2) The java 8 launcher will now directly launch Java applictions
>>     from a jar file, even if they weren't created with the
>>     javafxpackager program or ant tasks. Further, the java launcher
>>     will now directly launch Java applictions from class files. In
>>     both of these cases the JavaFX application launcher will be called
>>     in preference to the main() method of the application's Main-Class.
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>     4) Because we still include the javafx.embed.swt package in
>>     jfxrt.jar -- see http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/**browse/RT-23041<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.
>>
>>     Let me know if you have any questions.
>>
>>     -- Kevin
>>
>>
>>


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