OpenJFX 8 Backport to Java 7

[Daniel Zwolenski]

Also, is there a target date for the remaining bits to be open sourced? Seems likely that with the combo of Danno's jfx backport and Niklas' RoboVM we will be able to build and deploy apps to ios as soon as oracle finishes opening everything up. 

I don't think it would be overstating things to say the community is pretty hungry for this. 


On 15/05/2013, at 1:05 PM, Danno Ferrin <danno.ferrin at shemnon.com> wrote:

> I've started a backport codebase for OpenJFX8 to Java 7.
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/narya/jfx78
> 
> The intent is to provide OpenJFX 8 code to Java 7 based VMs, whether it is
> Oracle's JVM or other Java7 based VMs (such as RoboVM or Dalvik).  It's not
> soup yet, it still needs some more open source libraries.  Right now the
> compile breaks at the graphics module because the com.sun.javafx.accessible
> packages have not been open sourced yet.
> 
> For the record I am only concerning myself with the gradle build and not
> the current Ant based build.
> 
> Generally speaking the plans are to deal with the incompatibilities as
> mechanically and predictably as possible.
> 
> * For lambdas expanding them to inner classes.  IntelliJ has a code
> intention for this I am using
> * For defender methods push down the default implementation to first line
> implementors, giving it the same effect with more lines of code.
> * For the new JSR-310 Date classes bring in the ThreeTen jars (
> https://github.com/ThreeTen/threetenbp) (but it's not there yet)
> * For java.util.function.Predicate<T> replace it with Callback<T, Boolean>
> 
> If anyone is interested in contributing and wants commit access, just ask.
> 
> --Danno