I am taking that as a "yes" answer to my original question. On a completely unrelated topic, do Microsoft employees all have Macs on their desktops and carry iPhones and iPads around?
No? Well I bet Apple employees do! > On 10 Jun 2016, at 20:01, dalibor topic <dalibor.to...@oracle.com> wrote: > > I suspect that particular plugin is extremely rarely used, judging by > https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22javafx-mx.jar%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults > showing 0 results. > > cheers, > dalibor topic > >> On 09.06.2016 00:31, Kevin Rushforth wrote: >> As some of you may be aware, JavaFX has shipped a JMX plugin as a >> separate jar file along with the JDK (not part of the JRE) in >> <JDK>/lib/javafx-mx.jar. Development on this plugin stopped prior to JDK >> 8 being shipped, although we continued to ship javafx-mx.jar in JDK 8. >> >> Are there any developers that still use this? We haven't seen any bug >> reports or had questions on it for quite a while. I note that this jar >> file has been gone from JDK 9 ea since build 111 and we are trying to >> determine how best to address this in JDK 9. >> >> Our options are: >> >> 1) Remove it entirely and drop this tooling support >> >> 2) Continue to ship it as a legacy jar file, meaning that any use would >> require command line qualified exports to be added since it uses >> internal packages >> >> 3) Turn it into a proper JDK-only module, javafx.jmx; it would not be >> one of the default modules, so it would need to be added with -addmods. >> >> Obviously #1 would be the least amount of work, and given that it isn't >> being actively maintained, might be a viable solution. If we do need to >> keep it, then #2 might be less effort than #3, while still preserving >> the ability for developers to use it. This is only used for tooling, so >> requiring qualified exports, as is done for Robot and >> PerformanceTracker, is not a problem. >> >> Separately, if we don't remove it for JDK 9, we probably will deprecate >> it with the intention to remove it in a future release. >> >> -- Kevin > > -- > <http://www.oracle.com> Dalibor Topic | Principal Product Manager > Phone: +494089091214 <tel:+494089091214> | Mobile: +491737185961 > <tel:+491737185961> > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Kühnehöfe 5 | 22761 Hamburg > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Jan Schultheiss, Val Maher > > <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing > practices and products that help protect the environment
