On 11/18/18 3:01 PM, Michael Dever wrote:
Oracle seems to have Destroyed the combination of:
Netbeans, JavaFX, and SceneBuilder, building JavaFX from an IDE.
Is there any other IDE that supports and builds: JavaFX FXML Applications,
out of the box that just works, and that you can design the GUI application
from SceneBuilder?
Thanks,
Mike Dever
Hi Mike,
I'm assuming you're getting a missing JavaFX deployment error which is
the only error I could get with Java 11/JavaFX11 JDK in Netbeans with
FXML and non modular application in Linux. As result of Oracle's
careless deprecation and removal rampage, none of the non modular JavaFX
applications in Netbeans(even 9!) work regardless of whether your JavaFX
application is FXML or Java(which is all of templates/samples, by the
by). I've brought this up before on this mailing list before in a bit of
a rant and no one seemed to care to acknowledge that it was even an
issue. There is some effort to make a replacement however it's being
spearheaded by a company other than Oracle(abd IIRC is fit for primarily
their needs. I couldn't get it to work for my jLink app) and who know
when or if at all it will be integrated into JavaFX and Netbeans.
You can work around this by moving to a modular application. Sadly,
Netbeans 9 does not provide any easy way to convert projects to the
modular structure. Fortunately the process for converting it by hand is
fairly easy for simple small projects:
1. Create a new modular application in Netbeans.
2. Copy <Project>/src/<name> to the modular applications
<Project>/src/classes/
3. Fix module name in module-info and add exports.
This will break Git(or at least it did for me). Yes, it really sucks but
this is what happens when companies abort useful tools/secondary
features out of the blue like an unwanted child without warning, proper
& complete replacement, or time for IDE developers to add features to
help migrate users of these features gracefully. This corporate middle
fingering "It's our way or the highway" attitude is only going to hurt
Java as a whole as no one can depend on anything for any long period of
time and what tools/secondary features are being supported for the time
being don't have all the features or functionality that deprecated
features do. To add icing to the cake, Netbeans was formerly developed
by Oracle themselves. Ouch.
But now I'm just repeating myself and going off topic. Yeah, if it's a
small project the above should work fine. You might even be able to
automate it if you really need to.
Hope this helps.
