JDK 8 for ARM Early Access Releases (with JavaFX)

[Richard Bair]

Hey man, don't look a gift horse in the mouth ;-)

Richard

(For those non-native english speakers out there, a handy explanation of the idiom :-))

[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/don%27t_look_a_gift_horse_in_the_mouth]

"Horses' gums recede as they age making their teeth appear longer (hence the term, "long in the tooth"). Inspecting the teeth of a horse given as a gift was considered ungrateful. It would mean that recipient is trying to see if the horse is old (undesirable) or young (more desirable)."

On Jul 10, 2013, at 8:44 AM, Tobi <tobi at ultramixer.com> wrote:

> So where is JDK8 for ARMv7 for iPad and IPhone Oracle ;)?
> 
> Am 10.07.2013 um 16:22 schrieb Gerrit Grunwald <han.solo at muenster.de>:
> 
>> I made some tests already and I have to say it works really well. You can also use custom JavaFX8 controls without any problem. I just saw some problems with complex -fx-shape based paths. The performance improvements are really visible, so Oracle did a good job here.
>> Because it's based on b97 you can also use lambdas, 3D and even Nashorn should be useable (even if I did not tried yet).
>> 
>> Now it's really useful because you could easily use the same jar of your application and let it run on the Pi without any modification.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Gerrit
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Am 10.07.2013 um 16:14 schrieb Robert Krüger <krueger at lesspain.de>:
>> 
>>> If anyone plays around with this on the Raspberry, please share your
>>> experience here.
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:09 PM,  <steve.x.northover at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> JDK 8 for ARM hard float is now part of the regular JDK 8 Early Access
>>>> releases. You can get it athttps://jdk8.java.net/download.html; this
>>>> 
>>>> page will be regularly updated with new builds.
>>>> 
>>>> As in the previous Early Access release, this includes JavaFX for the
>>>> Raspberry Pi.
>>>> 
>>>> Daniel
>>