Tracking down an NPE

[Mark Howe]

On Jun 10, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Daniel Zwolenski <zonski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cool, thanks - so the native packager requires that every one of the JARs
> used in the app (even the third party ones not built as part of the app)
> have a manifest in them? That's going to be very nasty.
> 

That was fixed in August, for both fx2 and fx8 (I'm only looking at the oracle repos), should
only require the manifest for the main jar. 

> Regarding getting the javafx-ant jars into a repo, I started down this road
> a while back and have now access to the OSS repo for groupID
> 'net.java.openjdk.openjfx'.
> 
> I gave up actually deploying it when I realised there was a different
> javafx-ant.jar for each native platform. I wasn't able to build them all
> (and the Windows build was patchy at best anyway).

This should be easier now, the native launcher for the windows (launcher-win) build no longer uses Visual Studio project, 
it's now just part of the ant script (fx8 only).

Mark

> 
> Happy to work with you on getting them into that repo if you want. Just let
> me know where you're up to with it and what you need.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Danno Ferrin <danno.ferrin at shemnon.com>wrote:
> 
>> At least one of your jars does not have a manifest:
>> 
>> https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-24143
>> 
>> I'm tempted to get the JFX78 builds auto-deploying at least the javafx-ant
>> jar to some repo so the build plugins can use JavaFX 8 deployment code on
>> Java 7.
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Daniel Zwolenski <zonski at gmail.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> Any chance someone from Oracle could tell me what the line of code is in
>>> com.sun.javafx.tools.packager.bundlers.BundleParams at line 390?
>>> 
>>> Someone is getting a NullPointer on this line when using the maven plugin
>>> and I can't work out why. The line number is different in the Sun code vs
>>> the open sourced one.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dan
>>> 
>> 
>>