Thank you for the info. jpackage was first fxpackage, then became jpackage, then was dropped when FX was dropped, and then just returned. One of its uses was to create installable packages, either exe, dmg or whatever your flavour of Linux needs.
I am not fond of CLI, I believe my picture is on dart boards of Linux aficionados everywhere 😊. I believe your CLI suggestion is using the system installed Java runtime on your system and not the jlink Java runtime. On my system if I went into the image folder I could get it to run with the jlink rather than system Java with "bin\java com.mycompany.test2.App". The old Shade plugin could do that but it required Java installed. I thought jlink working with jpackage could do that. Answering your email forced me to looking into the image folder. Hiding in a file called modules in the lib folder is your code. So when you enter "bin\java com.mycompany.test2.App" Its pulling the code from the images\lib\modules. Therefore it does not depend on the presence of a system Java. What I am not sure of is whether or not this image will work on a Mac or Linux, my guess is it won't. So it all comes back to what is the purpose of jlink if it doesn't also create something that allows you to run your code with a single command on the command line or as a clickable file in a GUI system. I appreciate that it creates an instance of Java that can run your code without needing to download Java first. It feels like NetBeans is not completing the task by just using jlink. As always I assume the misunderstanding of its purpose is my fault. Bringing this back to NetBeans, I think that generated code should include comments that either explain the purpose or provide a link to documentation that explains it. I think that jlink is an incomplete solution and that should be explained. Could explain why modules still have not caught on. Now I will crawl back under my rock. Ken -----Original Message----- From: Ernie Rael <err...@raelity.com> Sent: May 30, 2020 1:47 PM To: dev@netbeans.apache.org Subject: Re: jlink in JavaFX project On 5/30/2020 9:41 AM, Kenneth Fogel wrote: > > This is a more general question. NB 12 b6 now has a jlink option for > the JavaFX Simple project. Cool, I haven’t used this feature of Java > yet. As the module-info.java file did not indicate what to include or > exclude (remember I don’t know how to use jlink) I believe that what > was generated in the target/image folder was the equivalent of a JRE. > I make this assumption because the folder is 60 mb in size. Heck, I > just searched thru the image and found keytool.exe. I should ask the > jlink group at Oracle about this. My ignorance is on display. > > So here is my question. Without jpackage creating an executable > package what is the value of jlink? > I'm not sure what you're looking for, or what jdk you're running, and I don't know anything about jpackage other than what I can intuit from the name. I think it's recent,   There is: jdk-14.0.1/bin/jpackage.exe. Also in case you're not aware, you can cd <project.directory>/target/image/bin and then, assuming your package is org.play.proj and the main class is App, run your app by doing   ./java org.play.proj.App -ernie > > To everyone who is working on NB you have my utmost respect. You are > doing amazing work. I’ll be doing a Jakarta EE tech talk at the > Eclipse foundation on June 9 at 11 AM DST and I will be using NetBeans > (they know I will be). > > Ken > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
