do you konw if there are any issues filed against javafx development tools with regard to maven support?
Milos On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Andrew Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > I'll openly admit that I'm stumped with "the best" way to implement support > for JavaFX in maven. However all existing support seems to be quite old > ~13months (i.e. not based on the latest final releases of javafx, or a > little heavy to work with). In the hope of putting a few things on the > table > perhaps I can get some of the brains trust to help me get a start. > > JavaFX ship's with an ant taskdef for compilation only (does not include > javafxdoc). I have managed to get this to work without the installation of > an instance of JavaFX installed by keeping a local copy of the jar's in the > ant project. Maven could do just the same (although installing all these > jar's in the maven repo could be a problem (might be cause for an > install:javafx goal to be created). > > Beyond getting all the required jar's for the classpath, there's also the > issue of the compilation itself from a maven plugin. Could we just embed an > ant task runner? do we use and <exec> wrapper? should we attempt to > directly > interface like the (closed sourced) task def does? > > I'm not sure what the best solution is here, especially when you want to > take into consideration consistency between developers and the JavaFX SDK > version. > > Really keen to get this going! >
