Error: JavaFX runtime components are missing, and are required to run this application

[Mark Raynsford]

On 2018-10-13T19:46:34 +0200
Johan Vos <johan.vos at gluonhq.com> wrote:

> The Java launcher (in the Java 11 JDK) checks if your main class extends
> Application, and in that case it checks the module path and tries to find
> javafx.graphics module. If you have that module on the classpath, but not
> as a module, the launcher will exit with the message you see.
> 
> There are some workarounds (e.g. you can have a Main class that doesn't
> extend Application that calls your Application), but the best approach is
> go modular, as explained here:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52467561/intellij-cant-recognize-javafx-11-with-openjdk-11/52470141#52470141

Ah, ok, thanks!

I'm an OSGi user and although the vast majority of the library code I
write is JPMS modularized, the application code I write almost
certainly won't ever be (because I use OSGi rather than the JPMS).

I'm fine with not extending Application - in fact I won't even have the
option to do so because OSGi applications don't have that traditional
main() method.

Is there documentation somewhere on the workaround you mentioned?

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