These are all good points. One thing we can do is make sure that there
are open JBS Enhancement issues tracking the features that are being
asked for. Prioritizing them, and eventually implementing some of them,
will be a discussion for a different day. As Johan said, we don't want
to over-commit.
-- Kevin
On 11/27/2023 10:49 AM, Johan Vos wrote:
I've read the responses to this post, and I think they all make sense,
so this is great feedback. It's good to know what people are
missing/interested in.
However, it makes me a bit nervous to see a growing wishlist while I
don't see more funding. Unfortunately, the reality is that most
companies want to pay (lots of money) for JavaFX consulting but not
for the core development.
Other client frameworks typically "solve" this by indirect revenue
streams (tie a client to a backend technology or ad-driven revenue
system), or by lowering the quality bar. I really want to avoid the
latter (and also the ad-driven revenue stream). While it would not be
too hard to come up with new features that address most of the
requests, I believe we need to make sure that
1. what we deliver is top-quality
2. what we delivered can be maintained for the next 10 years.
Quality and backward compatibility are extremely important to the
success of most Java projects. I am aware that the OpenJFX review
process is sometimes a bottleneck to get new features in, but it is
really something that we have to take very seriously.
I don't want to start the business discussion here, as this is a
tech-only list. But I want to be careful with over-promising, as the
past years taught me that maintaining the core of JavaFX on a number
of supported platforms is already a very challenging task. I am very
excited to see our achievements, having 2 major releases every year
and many updates, with different LTS versions being supported,
delivering SDK's, jmods, maven artifacts.
The work on the core-platform is typically not something that makes
the christmas wish-lists, but keep it in mind during the dark days :)
Having said that: on my wishlist is a Headless Glass platform. I'll
write more about that later in a separate post.
- Johan
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 9:49 AM Dirk Lemmermann
<dlemmerm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
I already mentioned this at the JavaFX BOF at DEVOXX and also
posted this on Twitter but wanna make sure it gets the visibility
it deserves:
All I want for Christmas is … / what I think is needed for JavaFX
going forward ...
- removal of AWT
- a tray API (tray icon)
- undecorated interactive stage style
- blur support for stages
- WebP image format support
- native embedded browser (Chromium)
- 3D line and point primitives
- injection support in FXML for custom controls
- TableView improvements, aka. TableView2
(order of items does not imply priority)
Dirk
