If you don't need the windowing system or the actions api or nodes or explorer or anything else then yes, you could use it like a command line app and just display your own JavaFX window.
The Plugin Manager UI shouldn't be too hard to rewrite in JavaFX either! It's also pretty ugly and might need a remake. The module UI itself is separate so it's totally doable. An interesting side-project! --emi > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [platform] Best practice of making a "pure" JavaFX applications atop > the platform > Local Time: October 30, 2017 9:03 PM > UTC Time: October 30, 2017 7:03 PM > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > I'm about to spice up an old platform application and looking at JavaFX for > that purpose. > > Most of the things I have seen and tested so far is related to put a JFXPanel > in a TopComponent, but I would like to use a Stage as my root window, and > still be able to enjoy much of the platform, such as lookup and plugin > manager. > > While poking around I got something to work: > A runtime container that starts an Application with a Stage, and displays a > functional Plugin Manager in an Alert Dialog. > > Even if this looks promising, I ask myself, is there a more established way > of doing this? > > Screenshot and source is available at https://github.com/trixon/netbeans-nbpfx > > /Patrik
