Based on the discussion I saw in the comments for RT-34236 I discovered that using com.javafx.main.Main is not the way JavaFX 8 is supposed to work. There are comments that read, "...making sure their Application class has a main that calls launcher(String[] args)."
This seems to imply that a main method is now required in the Application class when writing apps for JavaFX 8. Is this correct? If so. Somebody should tell NetBeans to stop injecting this comment in the generated application class for JavaFX projects: /** * The main() method is ignored in correctly deployed JavaFX application. * main() serves only as fallback in case the application can not be * launched through deployment artifacts, e.g., in IDEs with limited FX * support. NetBeans ignores main(). * * @param args the command line arguments */ Are the changes to the launching of JavaFX apps docuemtned somewhere? Is using javafxpackager or the ant task the *only* supported way of creating JavaFX applications? I'm currently using my own stub that runs on Java 7 and adds the jfxrt.jar to the classpath if required and then calls the launch method on the Applicaiton class. Regards, Scott
