8u40 is released

[Johan Vos]

Oracle stated that they won't release new binaries for SceneBuilder, but
since the code is open-source and BSD licensed, third parties and the Java
Community in general can create binaries based on the SceneBuilder sources.
This is what we did at Gluon (http://gluonhq.com), and the result can be
downloaded at http://gluonhq.com/products/downloads/
This download is based on the latest 8u40 source code in OpenJFX. It
includes the 8u40 Controls (e.g. Spinner, Dialogs).

Hope this is helpful.

- Johan

2015-03-04 16:31 GMT+01:00 Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net>:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> Scene Builder source code is available in the OpenJFX repo under the BSD
> > license, but separate binaries are no longer being released as of 8u40.
>
>
> I'm a bit confused what this means.
>
> People who want to use Scene Builder are expected to compile it themselves
> from now on? Does that really make sense? Presumably the idea here is that
> SB will be integrated into IDEs and will no longer have any purpose as a
> standalone app, but I'm not sure we're ready to go there yet - the last
> time I tried the SB integration into IntelliJ it was extremely basic and
> far below the experience of the dedicated app.
>
> As just one example, UI design benefits a lot from maximal screen space.
> IDE embeddings often don't provide that.
>