>* I'm thinking about this issue now because I quite like JavaFX and its *>* future is clearly as a regular Java library, albeit a big one, distributed *>* either via (not ideal) an SDK or (better) a set of regular libraries *>* published to a Maven repository. *>
+1 for this. (-1 for cross posting) The OP is right IMO, hacky jars containing native payloads seem common.
