Enhancements to 3D for JFX9?

[Donald Smith]

Yes, but then read the rest of the thread.  You really must not rely on 
the theoretical possibility of an XX flag that magically kicks all your 
problems down the road a year or two.  The best time to get all this 
nailed correctly is now.  That flag is not likely to be as extensive and 
durable as everyone is imagining.

  - Don


On 24/04/2015 8:19 AM, Tom Schindl wrote:
> Did you read the reply from Phil in the other thread?
>
>> There will be a -XX flag in JDK 9 that jigsaw provides to aid in the transition.
> So you will not have to maintain a JDK9 build but only start with this
> thread to still access private APIs and this is something you can
> clearly control if you install the JDK with your app!
>
> Tom
>
> On 24.04.15 14:05, Robert Krüger wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
>>
>>> this may mean, people who do this must work with a patched JDK in the
>>>> future.
>>>>
>>> Right. But I think that's going to be more and more common in future. If
>>> you rely on people installing proprietary stuff like JWS or applets then
>>> it's a bleak future, as the way forward is clearly bundled JREs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> patched != bundled. For us this would be quite a step back, having to
>> maintain our JDK patches/builds. Bundling itself is fine in our business
>> cases.
>>
>