Fx questions

[Kevin Rushforth]

One correction. We do not use Nashorn as the JS engine for WebView. 
There is an RFE to switch to Nashorn, but it is untargeted. See 
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8091505

Also, the roadmap is a bit out of date. We'll update it in the next few 
days with the information we presented at JavaOne.

-- Kevin


Benjamin Gudehus wrote:
> Hi Brian!
>
>   
>> for unit testing on Linux servers, is monocle a good bet?
>>     
>
> In case you simulate user input (mouse, keyboard, touch) you need to use
> the Glass robot instead of AWT robot when using Monocle. I observed some
> different behaviour and timing problems in my tests with Glass robot.
>
>   
>> when embedding html5 pages into fx apps, should we expect it to
>>     
> render/behave similar to popular browsers like chrome?
>
> AFAIK JavaFX just uses the Webkit rendering engine, so rendering should be
> more or less exactly like Chrome (they use their fork Blink, but there are
> not that much differences, yet). For JavaScript execution the Nashorn JS
> engine is used.
>
>   
>> do you have a public roadmap for fx?
>>     
>
> I guess there is some information on the OpenJFX project page.
>
>   
>> what is status of scenebuilder? Is it supported, and still worked on?
>>     
>
> I saw some commits in the SceneBuilder repository in the last few days.
> Binaries are provided by Gluon.
>
> Regards,
> Benjamin
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Brian Harris <brianfromoregon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi fx devs, a few questions.
>>
>> - for unit testing on Linux servers, is monocle a good bet? I got it
>> working by adding monocle jar to ext classpath
>>
>> - when embedding html5 pages into fx apps, should we expect it to
>> render/behave similar to popular browsers like chrome? I'm wondering if we
>> can expect this to just work or if things may be a bit wonky.
>>
>> - do you have a public roadmap for fx?
>>
>> - what is your recommendation for lifecycle management, ie creating
>> controllers with injected dependencies. I saw afterburner looked nice, we
>> have spring working too.
>>
>> - what is status of scenebuilder? Is it supported, and still worked on?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>
>>