On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 12:58, Walter Oney <walter.o...@oneylaw.com> wrote:
> As a very experienced developer who is new to the world of Java, JavaFX, > and NetBeans I have to share a lament about the current state of the tools. > > > > It should be possible for an untutored user to obtain a working > development environment with trivial ease. It is not. Instead, one appears > to have to navigate a maze of version and vendor incompatibilities with no > certainty of success. Do I get my JDK from Oracle or someone else? Ditto > JAVAFX and NetBeans. And which of the dozens of downloads do I pick? > > > > In my particular situation, I’m trying to develop a Java version of an MFC > app I built for my model railroad. As a hobbyist, that is – no commercial > product is in prospect. My current self-assigned task is to port the app to > Linux in the hope that I’ll find more robust WiFi support than Win10 has. > I was hopping along as a happy little bunny with NetBeans 8.4 and some > version or another of the JDK that included JavaFX. I was misled by the > incomplete instructions for installing JNA to omit downloading jna.jar. > Someone later corrected my mistake on the stackoverflow forum, but not > before I had installed JDK 13, a current release of OpenJFX, and NetBeans > 11.1. I ended up in Version Hell, which is where you go when you have > mismatched versions of your tools. I don’t even know what the path back > might be. > > > > My point here is that Java is supposed to be a platform independent > language. To encourage its use, though, those of you who are responsible > for its development and evangelism need to do a better job of bundling > self-consistent versions of the tools and/or providing a tool manifest that > someone like me can easily find and follow in order to download the tools > separately. NetBeans would be a logical place to test for AND CORRECT > version incompatibilities. I don’t have the patience > Patience is what you’ll need regardless of the technology stack you choose. In Apache NetBeans 11.1, what happens when you run the two OpenJFX samples in the New Project dialog’s Samples/JavaFX category? Gj to help in that effort, so it looks like I’ll have to abandon Java and > craft a Linux-only solution in C++. > > > > -- > > Walter C. Oney, Jr., Esq. > 267 Pearl Hill Rd., Fitchburg, MA 01420 > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/267+Pearl+Hill+Rd.,+Fitchburg,+MA+01420?entry=gmail&source=g> > Tel.: 978-343-3390 > http://www.oneylaw.com > > >
