David -- Thank you! I will try doing this.
-- Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Gradwell" <da...@gradwell.com> To: "COlsen" <col...@mchsi.com> Cc: "users" <users@netbeans.apache.org> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 8:21:33 AM Subject: Re: Maven deployment plugin for JavaFX Chris, Hopefully some of the following will help. We too did not want to use XCode (much!). You have to install it and use certain upload/notarise tools, but that works. So, my steps list is: 1. Set up an Apple developer ID, pay fee etc. using an email – we use a@b.c<mailto:a@b.c> in the following. 2. Create and download a DeveloperID signing cert to your development Mac's login keychain from https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/certificates/list 3. Create and download a Developer ID profile to System Preferences/Profiles. 4. Build your project with Ant since Ant puts all the library files in a folder called lib in dist. If Maven is your primary environment, just build the top level of the project with Ant. If you know how to make Maven put all the dependencies in one place ready for jpackage please tell me ! 5. Local test the Ant project and if it behaves proceed. 6. Make a Mac icon. 7. Using the pre-release Java 15 (you will have to download it) then run jpackage with something like the following script. I’ve hacked it a bit for confidentiality reasons. There may be some space characters that need removing!. export JAVA_HOME="/Users/myuser/Java Downloads/jdk-15.jdk/Contents/Home" export PATH=" /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Users/myuser/Java Downloads/jdk-15.jdk/Contents/Home/bin" echo $PATH rm -r /Users/myuser/NetBeansDev/MYAPPNAMEAnt/jpackageappimagetemp rm -r /Users/myuser/NetBeansDev/MYAPPNAMEAnt/jpackageappimageoutput jpackage --type app-image --app-version 0.0.1 --copyright "My company 2020" --name MYAPPNAME --dest /Users/myuser/NetBeansDev/MYAPPNAMEAnt/jpackageappimageoutput --temp /Users/myuser/NetBeansDev/MYAPPNAMEAnt/jpackageappimagetemp --vendor "My Company" --icon /Users/myuser/NetBeansDev/MYAPPNAMEAnt/MYAPPNAME.icns --input /Users/myuser/NetBeansDev/MYAPPNAMEAnt/dist --main-jar MYAPPNAMEAnt.jar --main-class com.you MYAPPNAME.SomeClass --java-options " -Xdock:name=MYAPPNAME" --mac-package-identifier MYAPPNAME --mac-sign --mac-signing-keychain "/Users/myuser/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db" --verbose 8. Check that the signing worked and that the app has appeared at /Users/myuser/NetBeansDev/MYAPPNAMEAnt/jpackageappimageoutput/MYAPPNAME.app and that it is double clickable and passes basic testing. Make a backup of what you have created. 9. Zip the .app using Finder compress. 10. Upload See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_macos_software_before_distribution/customizing_the_notarization_workflow section on “Upload Your App to the Notarization Service”. Create an application password using the Apple Developer site.. xcrun altool --notarize-app --primary-bundle-id "MyAppNotarisation4Sept2020" --username a@b.c<mailto:a@b.c> --password "Apple generated app password" --file /Users/myuser/NetBeansDev/MYAPPNAMEAnt/jpackageappimageoutput/MYAPPNAME.app.zip --verbose Look at the output carefully and hope you get an email. 11. Check the notarization history xcrun altool --notarization-history 0 --username a@b.c<mailto:a@b.c> --password "Apple generated app password" 12. Staple the .app xcrun stapler staple "/Users/myuser/NetBeansDev/MYAPPNAMEAnt/jpackageappimageoutput/MYAPPNAME.app" 13. Test: You can now put the .app on your web site, down load it, copy it /Applications on any machine and then double click it. We have also succeeded in making an installer and a .dmg. The .dmg has to be made from the stapled .app. This process is less tested. Let me know if you get the above to work and I will share. As mentioned, I’m working on a Java app to do all the above with one click – not finished yet !! Regards David On 04/09/2020, 13:32, "Chris Olsen" <col...@mchsi.com> wrote: David -- I am much interested in your statement... > We have also mastered the issues around Apple notarization needed to distribute an .app or .dmg. Can elaborate on this? Or better yet provide some code or script to make this happen? I do NOT want to mess with XCode!! -- Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Gradwell" <da...@gradwell.com> To: "HRH" <hrh...@yahoo.com.INVALID>, "users" <users@netbeans.apache.org> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 5:24:18 AM Subject: Re: Maven deployment plugin for JavaFX I have exactly the same question for any standard Java application. In previous versions of NetBeans an Ant project used to provide this capability but Ant package as seems to be broken in NetBeans 12. For example, using: Product Version: Apache NetBeans IDE 12.0 Java: 14.0.1; OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 14.0.1+7 Runtime: OpenJDK Runtime Environment 14.0.1+7 We get /AntProject/nbproject/build-native.xml:519: typedef class com.sun.javafx.tools.ant.FXJar cannot be found using the classloader AntClassLoader[]. In order to use Maven which as you say appears not to support we now use jpackage successfully. We have also mastered the issues around Apple notarization needed to distribute an .app or .dmg. So now we are working on a Java app that will do all the steps in one click for any application ! I agree it would be nice to find a NetBeans plugin for Maven to do all the packaging. If one needs writing then I am happy to contribute the logic and worked examples. David Gradwell
