Anyone using JMX with JavaFX?

[Felix Bembrick]

So, if I'm not correct, does that mean that by choosing option 1, there
will no remaining usage of JavaFX internally by Oracle themselves?

Felix

On 9 June 2016 at 08:31, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:

> As some of you may be aware, JavaFX has shipped a JMX plugin as a separate
> jar file along with the JDK (not part of the JRE) in
> <JDK>/lib/javafx-mx.jar. Development on this plugin stopped prior to JDK 8
> being shipped, although we continued to ship javafx-mx.jar in JDK 8.
>
> Are there any developers that still use this? We haven't seen any bug
> reports or had questions on it for quite a while. I note that this jar file
> has been gone from JDK 9 ea since build 111 and we are trying to determine
> how best to address this in JDK 9.
>
> Our options are:
>
> 1) Remove it entirely and drop this tooling support
>
> 2) Continue to ship it as a legacy jar file, meaning that any use would
> require command line qualified exports to be added since it uses internal
> packages
>
> 3) Turn it into a proper JDK-only module, javafx.jmx; it would not be one
> of the default modules, so it would need to be added with -addmods.
>
> Obviously #1 would be the least amount of work, and given that it isn't
> being actively maintained, might be a viable solution. If we do need to
> keep it, then #2 might be less effort than #3, while still preserving the
> ability for developers to use it. This is only used for tooling, so
> requiring qualified exports, as is done for Robot and PerformanceTracker,
> is not a problem.
>
> Separately, if we don't remove it for JDK 9, we probably will deprecate it
> with the intention to remove it in a future release.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>