javapackager feedback and questions

[Sverre Moe]

We are using the javapackager through the gradle/maven javafx plugin, to create:
* Executable JAR: When we went from Swing to JavaFX the maven jar
plugin could not create an executable JAR capable to start the JavaFX
Application.
* Native executable bundle: RPM (Linux), EXE (Windows), PKG (Mac)
* Java Web Start bundle

/Sverre

> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:16:19 -0800
> From: Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>
> To: Michael Hall <mik3hall at gmail.com>
> Cc: "jdk9-dev at openjdk.java.net" <jdk9-dev at openjdk.java.net>,
>         "openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net" <openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net>, Mani
>         Sarkar <sadhak001 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: javapackager feedback and questions
> Message-ID: <5A209F53.6080707 at oracle.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> We realized that the javapackger CLI JEP wasn't quite ready, and was out
> of scope for JDK 10 anyway, so we withdrew it in order to file a new JEP
> later.
>
> Related to this, we are soliciting input as to how people are using the
> javapackager (see Victor's question below).
>
> So we'd love to hear how you and others are using it, and for what kind
> of applications.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> Michael Hall wrote:
> >> On Nov 29, 2017, at 5:18 PM, victor.drozdov at oracle.com wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi, Mani.
> >>
> >> Thanks for providing the feedback!
> >> We will consider adding more examples and more details in the docs as you proposed(there is an arg named jvmOptions but that's not mentioned in the table).
> >> Looks like there is a bug when you specify systemWide=true on the MacOSX in non-gui mode. Can you provide more details about that (like full cmd line)?
> >> Actually, if you want you can clone the repo:
> >> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/10-dev/rt/
> >> (hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/10-dev/rt/)
> >> and help to improve javapackager. Or you can just create Enhancements for deploy/packager, as it's not always clear what users expect.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Why was JEP 311 [1] Closed/Withdrawn?
> >
> > [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/311
> >
> >