Refactoring JavaFX Builds & Sources (original) (raw)

Anthony Petrov anthony.petrov at oracle.com
Fri Oct 19 05:37:12 PDT 2012

On 10/18/2012 11:16 PM, Richard Bair wrote:

In addition to code generation, we also build a ton of native code (gstreamer, webkit, prism, fonts, glass, image loading). So that has to fit into the build system. Building native code is SLOW, so being able to avoid it for "normal" developers, and being able to avoid native builds when nothing changed in the native code, is important.

Building native code may be slow in general, but building e.g. Glass takes under a minute. Of course I agree that if code hasn't changed, it shouldn't be re-built.

One more point: presently we can clone the repository and build just glass itself (which is very fast as I mentioned above). This is useful for quick testing, and also we have a Glass-only demo app that doesn't depend on FX, so we can work on Glass w/o even building the whole FX right now. Can we make the new build system support this kind of partial builds (at least for Glass)?

Another point: I see that the ultimate goal is to be able to build from an IDE, and this is fine. However, I think that building from command line should still be supported and not require any more than it requires now (which is basically just cd to-my-repo && ant).

-- best regards, Anthony

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