JavaFX has a future but perhaps not the one we were all expecting or hoping for.
On 5 March 2015 at 09:18, Tobias Bley <t...@ultramixer.com> wrote: > In the past there were 2 bad signs from Oracle concerning JavaFX: end of > support for JavaFX on RaspPi and SceneBuilder… > > So does have JavaFX a future? > > Tobi > > > > Am 04.03.2015 um 23:14 schrieb Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net>: > > > > 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. > >>> > >> > >> > >
