JavaFX app for non-techie users

[Johan Vos]

Hi Jan,

The goal is indeed to provide the JavaFX components as maven artifacts
(e.g. see https://github.com/javafxports/openjdk-jfx/issues/52). Would that
fix your issue?

- Johan

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 8:02 PM Jan Tosovsky <j.tosovsky at email.cz> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I made a small JavaFX app for small non-techie team working on Windows
> (rewritten from Swing few years ago). Everyone had Java JRE installed so it
> was enough to distribute small jar file (50 kB), which could be executed on
> double click. Lucky man.
>
> I am quite confused by recent JavaFX announcements about decoupling JavaFX
> from JDK. It makes my life harder :-)
>
> Does it mean every user with JDK11+ (no JRE any more) will have to install
> additional JavaFX stuff to be able to run my app? Will it be provided as
> MSI
> installer for Windows platform? Will download links be available in a same
> place as standard Oracle Java JDK stuff downloads (ensuring credibility)?
> Will it have some kind of auto-update mechanism?
>
> I am aware of the trend of distributing Java apps as monolith with bundled
> JDK modules, but not sure it makes sense for small utilities. (I expect the
> size 50+ MB)
>
> Would it be technically possible to provide JavaFX as maven artifacts so I
> could easily add those JavaFX 'jars' (for single platform) as my app
> dependencies? I do not need WebView so the final size could still keep
> reasonable size.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Now I am slightly inclined to switching this app back to Swing to make it
> as
> simple as possible to the end-users.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jan
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