[#MAITAI-1] Create a launchable JAR for Linux to get around JNLP/FX problems - Kenai.com JIRA

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Create a launchable JAR for Linux to get around JNLP/FX problems

Created: 13/Nov/09 12:43 PM Updated: 13/Nov/09 04:13 PM

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Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit

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There's a known issue with JavaFX currently, where it won't launch in an applet or via webstart on 64-bit Linux systems. Until we have a fix for this, the only way I can launch Mai Tai on Ubuntu is to download and build the project sources via NetBeans, and launch it from there--would like to have a single JAR I can launch to play around with it. For some reason NB 6.8 is chewing up a full core on my machine while doing apparently nothing at all...

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Josh Marinacci added a comment - 13/Nov/09 04:05 PM

I don't think a single jar would work because you need to have all of the JavaFX runtime in the classpath, including FX's native libs. What if there was a shell script to start it with the commandline 'javafx' program (meaning you'd have to have the JavaFX SDK installed already).

BTW, is there a bug filed on JavaFX for this issue?

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pdoubleya added a comment - 13/Nov/09 04:13 PM

A script would be fine; too bad you'd have to maintain that configuration, though. Maybe a launcher via Ant? That would be fine as well, and would be easy to locate the JARs needed for startup.

I basically just don't want to start NB to run MaiTai, so any reasonable option is fine with me.

I believe this is the bug that is affecting me: http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-4967

No date for when they will fix it; makes JavaFX useless for both applets and JNLP on this machine.