Announcing EA builds of standalone JavaFX SDK

[Jonathan Giles]

Congrats to Kevin and team on this milestone!

-- Jonathan
(Tapped on a touch device)

On Mon, 7 May 2018, 4:01 PM Kevin Rushforth, <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>
wrote:

> 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/
>
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