Platform independent deployment

[Thomas Reinhardt]

Hi!

Apologizes if this is not the proper list to ask my question.

For context: we are using the WebView of JavaFX in our legacy swing 
based frontend application. For now that is the only component we are 
using but we might migrate completely at a later point in time.

I have an issue with the way platform dependent dependencies are 
handled. We are using maven btw.
My understanding is that during the build a profile is selected based on 
the host os name and architecture. That profile then sets a property 
(javafx.platform) that is in turn used as the classifier for platform 
dependent dependencies.
(Offtopic to my question: eclipse warns that the profile ids are not 
unique in the org.openjfx:javafx pom.xml).

Which means that the result of my build is locked to a single platform. 
But we have customers for windows and linux and don't want to have 
separate artifacts as that would mean we also have to handle that 
distinction in our installer etc.

I know I can override the automatically detected platform but that does 
not solve the issue.

Ideally I would use something like -Djavafx.platform=all but that does 
not exist.

My question is: is there an existing solution where I can just include 
all platform dependencies for say windows and linux and the runtime 
"sorts it out"? A naive test (manual copying of artifacts) of mine 
unfortunately failed. Of course I could just use custom classloaders and 
do it myself but I really would prefer to use an existing solution and 
not implement some workaround.

If there is no solution (yet), is there interest in such a feature? We 
might be able to contribute to the project.


-Thomas