[External] : Re: Eclipse and Gradle in OpenJFX

[Andy Goryachev]

Interesting, thank you, Thiago.

Maybe it's just the quality of gradle support in IntelliJ, or complexity of the Buildship plug-in in Eclipse.  It never worked for me, and removing the gradle nature from Eclipse project files has an added benefit of removing an extra dependency.

-andy



From: Thiago Milczarek Sayão <thiago.sayao at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 12:51
To: Andy Goryachev <andy.goryachev at oracle.com>
Cc: openjfx-dev at openjdk.org <openjfx-dev at openjdk.org>
Subject: [External] : Re: Eclipse and Gradle in OpenJFX
Andy,

We kind of did the opposite for Intellij (got rid of the .iml files and went for gradle import):

https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/1009<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/1009__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!KGyKiKF64SpFYCZE7vMq0nzFAyNGv-gTQJoxy9lGH2dg15mO5dl-ZuQha_yGdjFGH_l740roARzs-f231vB1WSlkRk4$>

I couldn't get it to detect the manual tests tho. Changing some gradle files worked, but would require a deeper review, so we went without it.

-- Thiago.

Em ter., 18 de jun. de 2024 às 16:05, Andy Goryachev <andy.goryachev at oracle.com<mailto:andy.goryachev at oracle.com>> escreveu:
Dear developers:

Does anyone use gradle in Eclipse (Buildship plug-in) with the OpenJFX repo?

The reason I am asking is that in my experience, the gradle nature in OpenJFX is either misconfigured, or obsolete, or both.  There is a rather old wiki page [0] which describes the Eclipse setup, though I don't think it is correct anymore.  The initial import of the repository in Eclipse triggers an internal gradle run which creates/modifies a bunch of .classpath and .project files which must be undone before the workspace becomes usable.  In any case, only a proper command line gradle build is supported anyway.

I would like to propose removing the gradle nature from Eclipse's .project files in OpenJFX.  Once done, the projects can be trivially imported into a new workspace with no extra steps required.  This change has no impact on command line build whatsoever.

What do you think?

Thank you
-andy



References

[1] https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/OpenJFX/Using+an+IDE#UsinganIDE-ConfigureEclipsetousethelatestJDK
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