OpenJFX status update

[Kevin Rushforth]

Hi Johan,

On 5/18/2018 4:51 AM, Johan Vos wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Related to point 3:
> what exactly do you mean with "Java FX has been removed from JDK 11"?
> It isn't part of the OpenJDK 11-ea13 either so I don't see the difference?

It was removed from the Oracle JDK 11 (it never was part of OpenJDK 11). 
The javafx.* modules were included in jdk-11-ea+13 and gone in 
jdk-11-ea+14. From the point of view of OpenJDK 11 there is no change.

> I thought references to JavaFX would be removed from 
> sun.launcher.LauncherHelper, but they are still there. Do you know if 
> there are plans to remove the (implicit) launcher there?

This came up during the review of changes I made to FXLauncherTest [1]. 
Alan and Mandy suggested that this functionality should be removed at 
some point, but it will be an incompatible change if done in JDK 11. I 
plan to file a follow-up JBS issue to consider removing this. One 
possible timeline would be to "deprecate it for removal" in JDK 12 and 
remove it in JDK 13.

-- Kevin

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202553


>
> Thanks,
>
> - Johan
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:09 AM Kevin Rushforth 
> <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com <mailto:kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     I wanted to update you on the progress of the last couple weeks on
>     the
>     OpenJFX project:
>
>     1. As mentioned last week, we now have EA builds of OpenJFX 11 on
>     java.net <http://java.net> [1]. We intend to update this roughly
>     weekly. Currently the
>     build numbers match the corresponding JDK build number, but that will
>     not necessarily be the case going forward, so don't assume that
>     they are
>     in sync.
>
>     2. Barring any build or staging issues, this week's OpenJFX 11 EA
>     build
>     will include the jmods as mentioned earlier [2] [3]
>
>     3. JavaFX has been removed from JDK 11 as of this week. Starting with
>     jdk-11+14, early access builds of JDK 11 will not include JavaFX.
>
>     4. After jdk-11+14 is posted on java.net <http://java.net>, and FX
>     is no longer included
>     in JDK 11, we will start using openjfx-11 as the fix version in
>     JBS to
>     distinguish it from JDK 11. We still expect to do a release of
>     JavaFX 11
>     around the same time as JDK 11, but using a different release number
>     will help track the actual content of JavaFX 11 separately from
>     JDK 11.
>
>     5. Once this settles down, possibly later this week, I hope to
>     restart
>     the discussion about OpenJFX policies, etc. I also hope to be a
>     bit more
>     responsive over the coming days / weeks than I have been for the last
>     3-4 weeks. Getting the standalone OpenJFX working and removing JavaFX
>     from the JDK was quite time consuming as you can probably imagine.
>
>     If you have any general comments or questions about any of this,
>     please
>     reply to this thread. We may want to split out more detailed
>     discussions
>     into their own thread to make it easier to follow.
>
>     -- Kevin
>
>     [1] http://jdk.java.net/openjfx/
>
>     [2]
>     http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2018-May/021856.html
>     [3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202368
>