David, Thanks for outlining your thoughts,it seems like a novel solution. The coveted solution would be (dreaming or ideallyspeaking) a feature integrated into the Project->Properties (or perhapselsewhere in the IDE), which can create a self_contained_installable package ofthe user’s project for a specific platform (or all). This certainly would obviatethe deployment overhead that developers have to grapple with at each softwarerelease. Currently, I cogitate about implementing my own simple JavaFX solutionto output a “.exe” installable on Windows 10.
Thanks On Friday, September 4, 2020, 2:54:30 PM GMT+4:30, David Gradwell <[email protected]> wrote: #yiv1672829086 #yiv1672829086 -- _filtered {} _filtered {} _filtered {}#yiv1672829086 #yiv1672829086 p.yiv1672829086MsoNormal, #yiv1672829086 li.yiv1672829086MsoNormal, #yiv1672829086 div.yiv1672829086MsoNormal {margin:0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;}#yiv1672829086 span.yiv1672829086EmailStyle18 {font-family:sans-serif;color:windowtext;}#yiv1672829086 .yiv1672829086MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} _filtered {}#yiv1672829086 div.yiv1672829086WordSection1 {}#yiv1672829086 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 From: HRH <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 3 September 2020 at 19:04 To: NetBeans Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Maven deployment plugin for JavaFX Hi, Does anyone know, if Maven has a plugin deployment for JavaFX application that will render a self-contained installable package for a given (or all) platform(s) (i.e. Windows - 64 bit, Linux or Mac OS)? I rather use a plugin and have the IDE do most of the work than using the Java Jpackage tool and do all the work myself. Thanks
