Hi Jan, The goal is indeed to provide the JavaFX components as maven artifacts (e.g. see https://github.com/javafxports/openjdk-jfx/issues/52). Would that fix your issue?
- Johan On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 8:02 PM Jan Tosovsky <j.tosov...@email.cz> wrote: > Dear All, > > I made a small JavaFX app for small non-techie team working on Windows > (rewritten from Swing few years ago). Everyone had Java JRE installed so it > was enough to distribute small jar file (50 kB), which could be executed on > double click. Lucky man. > > I am quite confused by recent JavaFX announcements about decoupling JavaFX > from JDK. It makes my life harder :-) > > Does it mean every user with JDK11+ (no JRE any more) will have to install > additional JavaFX stuff to be able to run my app? Will it be provided as > MSI > installer for Windows platform? Will download links be available in a same > place as standard Oracle Java JDK stuff downloads (ensuring credibility)? > Will it have some kind of auto-update mechanism? > > I am aware of the trend of distributing Java apps as monolith with bundled > JDK modules, but not sure it makes sense for small utilities. (I expect the > size 50+ MB) > > Would it be technically possible to provide JavaFX as maven artifacts so I > could easily add those JavaFX 'jars' (for single platform) as my app > dependencies? I do not need WebView so the final size could still keep > reasonable size. > > Am I missing something? > > Now I am slightly inclined to switching this app back to Swing to make it > as > simple as possible to the end-users. > > Thanks, > > Jan > > > > >
