Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Robert Krüger
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Stefan Fuchs wrote: > > But in all artificial restrictions to implement your own workarounds using > private apis its another minus on our assessment of the risks involved, > when investing in the javafx technology. Others are the diminishing plugin > support by b

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Robert Krüger
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Tomas Mikula wrote: > >Should I rely now on all of those fixes > > to be backported to 8? > > Why do you need them to be backported to 8? Just having them fixed in > 9 should be fine, no? (keeping the private workarounds for 8) > > It was a response to the point th

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Robert Krüger
- Getting access to the native window to let our video player render into a JFX screen, to have a video player with features and format support that can compete with other players on the market (RT-36215), basically following the example of Steve and Felipe's JavaOne presentation "Integrating JavaF

Re: @import in CSS

2015-04-08 Thread Tom Eugelink
Does the order in which things appear in a CSS have influence on the behavior? Tom On 8-4-2015 23:22, David Grieve wrote: The spec says that if there is an @import it has to appear first before any rule, except @charset, if present. On 4/8/15 5:12 PM, Tom Eugelink wrote: I'm currently porti

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi, in SWT on JavaFX (most likely NOT a common useage of JavaFX): - I had to reside to private-API when it comes to: * text calculations where there is no public API for things like FontMetrics, TextLayout, ... * For some of the direct

[8u-dev] Review request: [Windows] Ensemble 8: Spinner example layout is broken

2015-04-08 Thread Morris Meyer
Jonathan, Kevin and David, Please review these layout changes to the Spinner Ensemble sample to proportionally layout the different Spinners. Thanks much. --morris JIRA - https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-40199 WEBREV - http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~morris/RT-40199.01/

Re: Canvas performance on Mac OS

2015-04-08 Thread Chris Newland
Hi Jim, Definitely discrete GPU on the iMac: java -cp target/DemoFX.jar -Dprism.verbose=true com.chrisnewland.demofx.standalone.Sierpinski Prism pipeline init order: es2 sw Using native-based Pisces rasterizer Using dirty region optimizations Not using texture mask for primitives Not forcing pow

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Mike Hearn
> > For the benefit of the devs on the list, could you please point out what > private APIs you currently need to use? That way we can make sure proper > JIRAs are filed and we can connect those to actual real-world problems. e.g. handling a double click of a file on MacOS is impossible without

Re: @import in CSS

2015-04-08 Thread David Grieve
The spec says that if there is an @import it has to appear first before any rule, except @charset, if present. On 4/8/15 5:12 PM, Tom Eugelink wrote: I'm currently porting and reworking some gauges from Enzo to JFXtras. One of things that gets reworked involves that all gauges will have custom

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Stefan Fuchs
I' ll try to compile a list of the private apis we currently use in our application and why. Looking forward to using only public apis in java 9 then :-) - Stefan On Apr 8, 2015, at 1:52 PM, Robert Krüger wrote: our only workaround is to use private API For the benefit of the devs on the

@import in CSS

2015-04-08 Thread Tom Eugelink
I'm currently porting and reworking some gauges from Enzo to JFXtras. One of things that gets reworked involves that all gauges will have custom colored segments. These segments can be preset using colorschemes (e.g. green to red in 10 steps), so the CSS for these colors are shared over all gau

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Stefan Fuchs
Hi, and one more thing, I don't care about Unsafe. It can die unless it is involved in a workaround for the StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in CertUtils.checkWildcardDomain we currently see in java 8u60-ea when opening an https connection to our servers. Hopefully this can be fixed till the f

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Danno Ferrin
Just adding to the comment that a specific user has the issue will help, especially when it comes to validating the fix. > On Apr 8, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Hervé Girod wrote: > > Do you need a specific classification for such JIRAs? > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 8, 2015, at 22:05, Danno Ferr

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Hervé Girod
Do you need a specific classification for such JIRAs? Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 8, 2015, at 22:05, Danno Ferrin wrote: > > >> On Apr 8, 2015, at 1:52 PM, Robert Krüger wrote: >> our only workaround is to use private API > > For the benefit of the devs on the list, could you please point o

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Danno Ferrin
> On Apr 8, 2015, at 1:52 PM, Robert Krüger wrote: > our only workaround is to use private API For the benefit of the devs on the list, could you please point out what private APIs you currently need to use? That way we can make sure proper JIRAs are filed and we can connect those to actual

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Tomas Mikula
>Should I rely now on all of those fixes > to be backported to 8? Why do you need them to be backported to 8? Just having them fixed in 9 should be fine, no? (keeping the private workarounds for 8) T.

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Robert Krüger
exactly. I don't give a about Unsafe but I have to deal with the realities of Java(FX) in its current state and as long as bugs or limitations that simply make it impossible to ship a product that can compete with others in our market sit there for months or years and our only workaround is to

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Tomas Mikula
I do believe in making things right (like killing Unsafe, hiding private APIs). The transition will just be so much pain now that there is so much accumulated private APIs used in production. If there were no accessible private APIs to start with, there would be more pressure to fix bugs and expos

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Stefan Fuchs
Hi, you are right, there are still years to the end of public updates to JDK 8 We can use them to migrate to other technologies. - Stefan Making any theoretical flag available to the deployment side would entirely miss the point. Let me be blunt -- sun.misc.Unsafe must die in a fire

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Donald Smith
Making any theoretical flag available to the deployment side would entirely miss the point. Let me be blunt -- sun.misc.Unsafe must die in a fire. It is -- wait for it -- Unsafe. It must go. Ignore any kind of theoretical rope and start the path to righteousness _*/now/*_. It is still years

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Stefan Fuchs
Hi, then I can only hope, that this flag is available to webstart applications. Webstart applications have no control over the installed jre. In the past we encountered various bugs in the jre, which required using internal apis for workarounds. For example in some releases of Java 7 the swing

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Hervé Girod
I think that Oracle people are right. It's more a JDK 9 or jigsaw issue than a JavaFX issue. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 8, 2015, at 20:22, Tomas Mikula wrote: > > My concern is that issues with existing workarounds were given lower > priority. Now many workarounds will disappear, but I'm wor

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Tomas Mikula
My concern is that issues with existing workarounds were given lower priority. Now many workarounds will disappear, but I'm worried that the priorities will not be reconsidered. I think part of the problem is the fact that Java does not have a good way of marking an API as experimental. Anything p

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Robert Krüger
OK, while I wrote this, all the other replies came in. So I see that your recommendation for the cases I mentioned is then to patch OpenJDK and submit Jira issues. Fair enough. Regarding Jira issues, we are already doing that. Regarding code contribution, this is a different thing, because in many

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Robert Krüger
OK, if that statement holds true it is not too unlikely it will be the death of our plans to migrate to JFX (which I am trying to convince my partners of). I am aware that using private APIs is a last resort and we don't do that if we don't have to. Realistically the pace at which JFX (which we thi

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Phil Race
> it's not strictly JFX-only. Its not remotely FX only, in fact I could argue FX is not so affected, as being relatively new it does not have 20 years of accumulation of people using internal APIs that the larger JDK does, often dating from when there were no suitable public APIs. There still r

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Joe McGlynn
If there are FX APIs that are currently private that folks think should be public, or that are currently necessary to implement a work-around for another bug, please make sure there is a Jira issue filed for this. We’ll try to address this for JDK 9 to mitigate this, but everyone should under

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Kevin Rushforth
Hi Robert, No, this is not a misunderstanding. There will be no access to any classes in non-public packages in JDK 9 by applications for exactly the reasons the region rep mentioned. For JavaFX this means that no com.sun.javafx (or similar) packages will be accessible by applications in JDK

Re: Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Mike Hearn
sed -i 's/private/public/g' ;) The whole notion of a strongly enforced private keyword is IMHO dumb when not using sandboxing. The number of gross hacks that occur in an attempt to work around overly strict enforcement of this stuff is crazy. The D compiler has a special flag that disables visibil

Re: Canvas performance on Mac OS

2015-04-08 Thread Chris Newland
Hi Jim, I'll post the verbose prism output from my iMac when I get home. Just tried this on my Linux workstation and the performance gap is the same between es2 and sw so I don't think it's an OSX issue. uname -a Linux chris 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux "$JAVA_HO

Private APIs not usable in Java 9?

2015-04-08 Thread Robert Krüger
Hi, I hope this is not too off-topic, because although it came up in a JFX context it's not strictly JFX-only. Someone from our team recently had a chat with a high-ranking regional Oracle representative who gave a talk on the state of JFX. Our guy explained our situation (evaluating JFX to migra

[9] Request for review: RT-40330 [WebView] implement missing functionality in PasteboardJava.cpp

2015-04-08 Thread Anton Tarasov
Hi Kevin, Vadim, Please have a look at the WebView Pasteboard refactoring fix: jira: https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-40330 fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ant/RT-40330/webrev.0 Thanks, Anton.

Re: performance on iOS

2015-04-08 Thread Erik De Rijcke
Disclaimer: I have not looked at the demo you're trying to run. I'm no opengl expert so my advice might be a bit off, but I do know the basics of gl programming. I'm not familiar with JavaFX opengl rendering algorithm but is it really needed to create a new (sub)texture object so many times? You'r