It was an issue of resources versus priority and scope. JDK 9 is focused on Jigsaw modularity and a few other minor features. It is more of a "smoothing out" release than a big feature release (except for Jigsaw). We expect JDK 10 to be a somewhat more feature-oriented release.

-- Kevin


Felix Bembrick wrote:
Do you mind if I ask what the rationale behind such a decision is?

From an admittedly perhaps totally ignorant outside observer, it would seem to me that 
any cost/benefit analysis would basically put this feature in the "no brainer" 
category and should have been implemented at the very least since JFX 8.

On 12 May 2016, at 01:11, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com> wrote:

No. WebGL support is not planned for JDK 9. We will look at this for JDK 10.

-- Kevin


Felix Bembrick wrote:
Will this new WebKit finally support WebGL?

Just by supporting WebGL in the JavaFX WebView will instantly enable an entire new set of 
3D features and access to a plethora of JavaScript 3D libraries for "free".

And, Google Maps will finally work too.

On 11 May 2016, at 08:20, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com> wrote:

All,

As a heads-up, we plan to push an updated WebKit to FX 9-dev early next week 
[1]. If there are no build problems, they will be integrated to 9 master the 
following week for jdk-9+119. We then plan to backport the newer WebKit (to 
keep them in sync) to 8u-dev a couple weeks later.

The only new tool needed to build this is CMake [2] version 3.4 or later (we 
will use 3.4.1 to build).

Let me know if you have any questions.

-- Kevin

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156698

[2] http://cmake.org/

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