Netbeans no longer defaults to creating Ant based projects unlike years
ago & there has been, IIRC, some talk on further retiring support for it
and Maven works just fine provided that you use the JavaFX Maven plugin*.
Still maybe worth fixing since support isn't completely removed and
there may be cases where one might want to download and use a JavaFX SDK
dist.
* the situation with IDE JavaFX support is complicated due to a project
created outside Netbeans not set up with hacks Netbeans needs for green
run button but there is an in-IDE option to do javafx:run and intellij
needs a custom run action created to do javafx:run AFAIK, but I digress.
On 6/14/2021 1:15 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
We deliver a set of modular jars in the lib directory of the
standalone JavaFX SDK. We also deliver src.zip for use by IDEs into
that same directory. If you add the lib directory to your
application's module path in your IDE, it will try to load src.zip as
if it were a jar file, and will fail. This is a pain point for
developers using the SDK. This problem has been raised on the mailing
list a couple of times, and I think it's time to fix it. This issue is
tracked in JBS by JDK-8258499 [1].
I propose to move the src.zip file from the lib directory to the top
directory of the SDK.
Alternatively, we could create a new directory for src.zip (either a
sibling of lib or sub-directory under lib). However, I think it would
be easier to find in the top dir of the SDK, and I don't see the need
for a new directory just to hold src.zip.
Before I create the PR and the associated CSR, I'd like to hear
developer's opinions on this.
-- Kevin
[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8258499
