Amazon Corretto JDK8 released (with?) JavaFX

Philip Race philip.race at oracle.com
Fri Feb 1 18:15:40 UTC 2019


My guess is that they did not look closely enough at the build 
instructions since
you need to specify -PCOMPILE_MEDIA=true -PCOMPILE_WEBKIT=true
to get these built - they aren't built by default.

So I suppose no testing was done ...

-phil.

On 2/1/19, 9:16 AM, Michael Paus wrote:
> The Amazon Corretto JDK8 has now been released.
>
> At a first glance it seems to have JavaFX on board but
>
> if you dig a little bit deeper your will realize that this
>
> is actually good for nothing. You can neither play
>
> video nor audio with it and the WebView also
>
> does not work because all the native libraries are
>
> missing. I wonder who Amazon thinks it is doing a
>
> favor by offering such a castrated Java version.
>
> They should either leave JavaFX out or support it
>
> completely. If you are still on Java 8 and want to
>
> use JavaFX on OpenJDK, ZuluFX or Liberica (FX) are
>
> the better choice.
>
> Just my two (€-) cents. What do you think?
>
> Michael
>
> PS: This was tested with the Mac-Version.
>


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