which future should it be? IoT?
> Am 04.03.2015 um 23:29 schrieb Felix Bembrick <felix.bembr...@gmail.com>: > > 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 > <mailto: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 > > <mailto: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 > > <mailto: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 <http://gluonhq.com/>), > >> and the result can be > >> downloaded at http://gluonhq.com/products/downloads/ > >> <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 > >> <mailto: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. > >>> > >> > >> > >
