That's great Johan, but ...... what does this mean, exactly? Is SB effectively dead at this point? Short of some horrifically convoluted corporate politics I can't understand why Oracle would develop an application but not provide downloads of it. Does this mean SB won't be upgraded past 8u40?
I mean - I don't think it's unreasonable of me to be surprised by this, and I thought I followed JFX development pretty closely. What's the story here? On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Johan Vos <jo...@lodgon.com> wrote: > Oracle stated that they won't release new binaries for SceneBuilder, but > since the code is open-source and BSD licensed, third parties and the Java > Community in general can create binaries based on the SceneBuilder sources. > This is what we did at Gluon (http://gluonhq.com), and the result can be > downloaded at http://gluonhq.com/products/downloads/ > This download is based on the latest 8u40 source code in OpenJFX. It > includes the 8u40 Controls (e.g. Spinner, Dialogs). > > Hope this is helpful. > > - Johan > > 2015-03-04 16:31 GMT+01:00 Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net>: > >> Hi Kevin, >> >> Scene Builder source code is available in the OpenJFX repo under the BSD >> > license, but separate binaries are no longer being released as of 8u40. >> >> >> I'm a bit confused what this means. >> >> People who want to use Scene Builder are expected to compile it themselves >> from now on? Does that really make sense? Presumably the idea here is that >> SB will be integrated into IDEs and will no longer have any purpose as a >> standalone app, but I'm not sure we're ready to go there yet - the last >> time I tried the SB integration into IntelliJ it was extremely basic and >> far below the experience of the dedicated app. >> >> As just one example, UI design benefits a lot from maximal screen space. >> IDE embeddings often don't provide that. >> > >
