Platform independent deployment

[Thomas Reinhardt]

I think there is a misunderstanding here.

What I want is basically create a zip that contains all needed jars and 
run my application via "java -jar myapp.jar". Of course there exists a 
proper exe for windows users etc but thats besides the point. The one 
thing the whole discussion is about is that I want to use the same zip 
for all supported platforms (linux and windows in my case). What I 
specifically NOT want is platform dependent zips. We have a very large 
number of dependencies and the size of the whole thing (zipped) is about 
300MB. Having os specific versions would basically double that size for 
our nexus instance, the download server etc.

To be clear: the whole thing has to run on the classpath and is not 
modularized (yet). Not what we want but what other dependencies are 
forcing us to do.


If I read the source correctly, the javafx-maven-plugin can either run 
the application on my dev machine (why?) or create platform dependent 
runtime images.
Am I missing something?


Seriously, isn't the sole existence of this plugin an indicator that 
something is not quite right?




Again, apologies if this sounds personal or unfriendly in any way. Not 
intended at all.


	-Thomas







On 21/10/2022 11:54, Johan Vos wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 11:38 AM Thomas Reinhardt 
> <thomas.reinhardt at s4p.de <mailto:thomas.reinhardt at s4p.de>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     As for the javafx-maven-plugin: I don't see how this would help
>     here. It
>     states on the github page "JavaFX dependencies are added as usual".
> 
> 
> ... but you don't have to add a classifier (or an exhaustive list of 
> classifiers) as that is what the plugin takes care about. Hence: you 
> just depend on javafx.controls and you don't mention 
> javafx.controls:linux-x86_64 etc in your pom at all.
> 
> Unless I'm missing something, I don't see the problem (no need for 
> having 12 dependencies instead of 2).
> 
> - Johan