Fate of jdk.packager and jdk.packager.services?

Johan Vos johan.vos at gluonhq.com
Thu Aug 9 13:00:02 UTC 2018


We (Gluon) are looking into creating a JavaFX 11 version of the packager.

- Johan

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 1:42 PM Cyril F <temp325 at live.fr> wrote:

> I am sure the new jpackager tool will be a good substitute. But won't come
> before jdk12...
>
> In fact we are in the current situation :
>         We have a javaFX8 app distributed as a .exe with a bundled JRE.
>         We are mirating to javaFX11.
>
> My fear is that there will be a gap between javafx11 (october) and the new
> jpackager (not before jdk12) where no official and supported tool will be
> provided.
>
> In this situation (I am sure we are not alone) what should we do ? Wait
> for the new jpackager ? or start using openjfx11 with no real certainty ?
> use an other tool ?
>
> Cyril
>


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