Announcing EA builds of standalone JavaFX SDK

[Michael Paus]

Hi Kevin,
that's a great achievement. I have a few questions/remarks though:

1. On the announcement page I assume the license agreement should not read
"These binaries are provided under the GNU General Public License 
<http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>."
but instead should read
"These early-access, open-source builds are provided under the GNU 
General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception 
<http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>."
With or without classpath exception makes a big difference. (The actual 
link is already the same anyway.)

2. I can confirm that a simple program from the command line works 
nicely on my MacBook Pro Retina but I had to add "/lib" to the module 
path to get it working.

3. How do you properly configure an Eclipse (the latest 4.7.3a) project 
to use this module path. Adding the OpenJDK was no problem but how do 
you add the module path for JavaFX? I failed on that.

Michael

Am 08.05.18 um 01:00 schrieb Kevin Rushforth:
> I am pleased to announce the first Early Access build of a standalone 
> JavaFX SDK [1]. You can download it and run it using OpenJDK 10 or an 
> OpenJDK 11 EA build.
>
> If your application is in an unnamed module (i.e., your app is on the 
> classpath), you can run your application as follows, after unzipping 
> the SDK bundle for your platform.
>
> $ java --module-path $PATH_TO_FX/javafx-sdk-11 
> --add-modules=javafx.controls,javafx.fxml MyApp
>
> This assumes you don't need media or web. If you do, then add those 
> modules, too. Note that since javafx.web "requires transitive 
> javafx.controls", you can omit javafx.controls if you add javafx.web.
>
> If you are running a modular application, then you don't need the 
> "--add-modules" option.
>
> Note that this is a stepping stone to javafx modules in a repository 
> like Maven.
>
> Please test your applications with the SDK and give us feedback.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Kevin
>
> [1] http://jdk.java.net/openjfx/
>