Hello,
I hope this is of interest to the OpenJFX community. Conveyor is a new
packaging tool that launched a few months ago. It's similar to jpackage,
except with some useful additional features:
- Handles online updates.
- You can build for every OS from your own choice of OS:
- Cross-builds and cross-signs packages (i.e. you can sign and
notarize Mac packages from Windows, Windows packages from Mac, etc).
- Does icon conversion for you.
- Generates the needed CSRs if you want to buy certificates.
- Very good for Linux CI.
- Generates a download/updates site for you, with a big green button
that detects the user's CPU/OS.
- Configured via HOCON instead of CLI arguments.
- Can do self-signed packages, if you don't want to buy certificates.
The user is given instructions for how to install the app on the download
page.
- Integrates with jlink and jdeps to minimize the bundled JVM.
You can learn more here: https://hydraulic.software/
There's an example of how to use it with the AtlantaFX Sampler app:
https://github.com/mkpaz/atlantafx
Look at the conveyor.conf file at the top level. It also has a `generate`
command that can make a simple JavaFX hello world app with packaging
pre-integrated.
It's free for open source projects. I hope it proves useful !
thanks,
-mike
