On 4/29/18, 10:05 AM, Johan Vos wrote:
Now that the OpenJFX SDK that works with Java 11 is about to be released in
EA, we should think about releasing the modules.
In case you download the OpenJFX SDK, running an app goes like
java --module-path $OPENJFXSDK/lib --add-modules javafx.controls your.app
If you use gradle or maven, the same should be achieved using e.g.
dependencies {
compile 'javafx:javafx.controls:11.0.0'
}
(ignore the naming and versioning for now)
This will download the javafx controls module and its dependencies from
e.g. maven central. The javafx controls module info declares a requires
entry for javafx.base and javafx.graphics so those will be downloaded.
The question is how the native libs should be downloaded. It is possible to
bundle the native libs with the modules, but there are a number of options
for dealing with platform-specific libraries:
1. javafx.graphics contains all native libraries for all platforms.
2. a generic javafx.graphics module containing java code only, plus N
platform-specific modules (or jar) containing the native code. An example
of how this is used is ND4J:
https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/nd4j/nd4j-native/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/
The java code is platform-specific too .. so I don't see how #1 would
work and
#2 would seem to require some large amount of work and I don't think will
work either because you can't split packages acrosss modules which is
what it
would probably mean.
-phil.
To make it more complex, there are a number of options for e.g. prims
leading to a number of native libs. Do we want to include all relevant
options for all platforms?
- Johan
