JavaFX with GraalVM

[Michael Paus]

This is really great news. I am excited to see how this goes on.
I have one question though: Is it really necessary to build on a JDK 11
distribution or is it also ok to use JDK 12 and only set Source/Target 
to 11?
- Michael

Am 28.05.19 um 14:15 schrieb Johan Vos:
> Hi,
>
> We just posted a news entry announcing that we have a build tool that
> converts JavaFX applications into native executables using GraalVM:
> https://gluonhq.com/a-boost-for-java-on-the-client/
>
> The JavaFX code used for this comes from my fork at
> https://github.com/johanvos/openjdk-jfx/tree/omega which has only 1 commit
> that is not upstream (yet), and that allows to build static libraries from
> the JavaFX code (instead of dynamic libraries).
>
> The source for the native parts of the Java core classes that are linked
> into this release come from OpenJDK, where we built native libraries as
> well (instead of dynamic libraries).
>
> At this moment, we only do this for Mac, but Linux is almost ready too, and
> other platforms will follow.
>
> - Johan