Has anyone tried using a custom Log Formatter with a JavaFX app, where the log formatter was not part of the main application jar?
We have a class implementing java.util.logging.Formatter that is present in a utility Jar. That utility jar is specified on the classpath for our JavaFX application using the javafxpackager -createjar command with the -classpath option. We can see that the jar is correctly added to the JavaFX-Class-Path: entry in the jar's manifest. However, the java.utils.logging APIs are not able to load it. We then hacked the package.cfg file in the application bundle created by javafxpacker -deploy -native to add this jar on the app.classpath= line (which was otherwise left blank). That fixed the problem. Looking more closely at the javafx launcher source code (fxpackager/src/main/java/com/javafx/Main.java) I see that a new URLClassLoader is created but using 'null' as the parent ClassLoader instead of the System ClassLoader or ContectClassLoader. Is that intentional? Note that this also broke other aspects of our application that dealt with loading plugins. I use the logging as an example because it is much simpler. Our application is compiled and deployed with 7u45. Regards, Scott
