Monocle gone?

[Sean True]

Daniel, Christian --

There seems to be a strong use for Monocle in the case of doing headless
testing. I am currently using TestFX, and testing on Jenkins requires
having a remote desktop window open to the headless Windows Jenkins slave.

I had started to explore using Monocle with an earlier build of 8u20 and a
tweaked version of TestFX, and it was very encouraging. Without it, I have
a serious hole in my testing strategy.

-- Sean


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Daniel Blaukopf <daniel.blaukopf at oracle.com
> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> Monocle is gone for the desktop since it is not a tested configuration
> there. We only test Monocle in his non-headless implementations, on
> embedded platforms.
> However, if you build OpenJFX yourself (
> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Building+OpenJFX) you will
> get Monocle included in the build and will be able to use it as before.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
> On Jul 5, 2014, at 11:09 PM, Christian <krampenschiesser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I just updated from 1.8.20-b17 to b21 and there is no monocle platform
> anymore.
> > Will it come back?
> > Is there any other way to have a headless build?
> >
> > I was trying around with xvfb as an alternative but sadly:
> > ES2 Prism: Error - GLX extension is not supported
> >    GLX version 1.3 or higher is required
> > Additionally xvfb segfaults...
> >
> > However I would be awesome if Monocle would be back.
> > I have a lot of tests for the UI and since I cannot mock JavaFX classes
> because they are final I have to run a real application.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Christian
>
>