JavaFX Launch Failure on Ubuntu from JNI

[Michael Hall]

> On Jan 20, 2022, at 9:23 AM, Steve Hannah <steve at weblite.ca> wrote:
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> My reason for a launcher is that I'm building an alternative to jpackage that uses npm for deployment/versioning/updates and allows you to build native bundles for all platforms (Mac/Linux/Windows) on any platform.  I.e. You don't need to be building on a Windows box to create a native windows exe.  You don't need to worry about Mac codesigning and notarization, etc...  It just takes care of all that for you on whatever system you're developing on.
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> I already had it working well but it currently launches JVM in a separate process which wasn't optimal - so I'm working on improving it to be able to run in the same process as the launcher.  This (I think) was the last obstacle.
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> Best regards
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> Steve

I’m not sure jpackage handles the notarization. I had done it for a jpackage application and posted something on how to do it on my site. My builds are currently throwing some sort of error on that I haven’t looked at yet. The code signing and packaging I think all invoke native OS/X commands. Not trivial but that could also probably be done on your own. It appeared tricky with an already signed embedded jdk. It took jpackage a few releases to get it right.

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> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 7:13 AM Michael Hall <mik3hall at gmail.com <mailto:mik3hall at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > On Jan 20, 2022, at 9:08 AM, Steve Hannah <steve at weblite.ca <mailto:steve at weblite.ca>> wrote:
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> > I just wanted to post an update on this in case it helps some future dev
> > who gets stuck on the same issue.
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> You probably have good reasons for having your own launcher but you might want to consider if jpackage could be an alternative and let that handle these cross-platform application details. 
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