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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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On 09/04/2015 07:45 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/4/2015 11:49 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>> On 09/02/2015 05:46 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
>>>
>>>      It's worth noting that the javafx package is not part of "core
>>> Java" (more formally, "Java SE"), but is an optional add-on called
>>> JavaFX.  (JavaFX is well-known as the technology that has made all
>>> of AWT, Swing, SWT, Flash, and HTML5 obsolete. :)
>>>
>>>      In other words, the machinery that makes the updates happen is
>>> not "a Java feature" any more than GMP is "a C feature."
>>>
>> Another note of interest:
>>  From the "Oracle Java SE and Oracle Java Embedded Products" page
>> <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/products/index.html>
>>
>> Java SE includes:
>>
>>    The Java Development Kit (JDK),
>>      including the JavaFX Software Development Kit (SDK),
>>
>>    Java Runtime Environment (JRE),
>>      (Server and regular packages)
>>
>>    JavaFX Runtime,
>>
>>    JRockit JDK
>>
>> The javafx package is not part of the Java Development Kit (JDK).
>>
>> You're allowed limit your "core Java" to the
>> packages available within the JDK, if you like
>> but you cannot exclude the javafx packages from "Java SE".
>
> We sure can.
>
> A Java implementation can be fully Java SE compliant without
> JavaFX.
>
> And I think that in fact most Java 8 implementations besides
> reference implementation (Oracle) comes without. IBM certainly does.
>
> The above page is about "Java SE product". Java SE is a
> specification not a product. Oracle Java SE is a product and
> that does indeed contain JavaFX.
>

Please point me to the Java SE specification.