8u40 is released

[Felix Bembrick]

JavaFX has a future but perhaps not the one we were all expecting or hoping
for.

On 5 March 2015 at 09:18, Tobias Bley <tobi at ultramixer.com> wrote:

> In the past there were 2 bad signs from Oracle concerning JavaFX: end of
> support for JavaFX on RaspPi and SceneBuilder…
>
> So does have JavaFX a future?
>
> Tobi
>
>
> > Am 04.03.2015 um 23:14 schrieb Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net>:
> >
> > That's great Johan, but ...... what does this mean, exactly? Is SB
> > effectively dead at this point? Short of some horrifically convoluted
> > corporate politics I can't understand why Oracle would develop an
> > application but not provide downloads of it. Does this mean SB won't be
> > upgraded past 8u40?
> >
> > I mean - I don't think it's unreasonable of me to be surprised by this,
> and
> > I thought I followed JFX development pretty closely. What's the story
> here?
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Johan Vos <johan at lodgon.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
>
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