JFX - Running with Jigsaw in development

[Kevin Rushforth]

Thanks, Dave.

This is a great step forward and is a necessary piece to enable us to 
eventually move to a later JDK 9 for building JavaFX (we are stuck at 
build 109 for now).

-- Kevin


David Hill wrote:
>
> We have a new trick in the FX repo to help with running FX apps backed 
> by a Jigsaw enabled build.
>
> If you build FX with JIGSAW_HOME set to a JDK 9 build later than build 
> 110, then the Jigsaw modules will be generated. These modules can be 
> used with -Xpatch to override the modules in JDK9. Unfortunately each 
> module must be listed separately, and we need a -Djava.library.path to 
> find the built native libraries - a very verbose command line...
>
> But... recently added to the build, a new file is now created: 
> build/xpatch.args that has all of this for you.
>
> export JIGSAW_HOME="path_to_top_of_JDK9"
> export JFX_BUILD="path_to_top_of_your_repo"
> alias javafx='$JIGSAW_HOME/bin/java @$JFX_BUILD/build/xpatch.args'
>
> This alias uses the @argfile mechanism to include all that 
> Xpatch/java.library.path verbosity to create a single command to run 
> FX backed by your recently built binaries.
>
> Get your Jigsaw enabled JDK9 preview here: 
> https://jdk9.java.net/download/
>