Review Request: 8001533: Java launcher must launch JavaFX applications (original) (raw)

David DeHaven david.dehaven at oracle.com
Mon Nov 19 16:47:48 UTC 2012

If Main-Class is always present with JavaFX-Application-Class, it may be no impact; but this seems to be unclear at this moment. Kevin can chime in here and looks like this requires more investigation before we continue the code review. I've read the other mails and I see that there are a number of discussion points that needs to be resolved before the proposal can move forward.

Yes, we've been discussing offline to nail down the actual wants for this feature.

On the Profile attribute then the concern is where Main-Class is not present, in that case the JAR file isn't technically an executable JAR file and so would be considered a library JAR in the current proposal, hence different defaults so no fast-fail for FX applications.

Oh, I see your point there. Kumar brought up the idea of checking what Java version was targeted when it was compiled to kick in a backwards compatibility mode. I think moving forward there won't be any chance of not having a Main-Class, and I don't think javafxpackager has ever created a jar without it so if one did exist it would have been manually assembled.

-DrD-

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