Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: JavaFX disappearing in Java 11 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 21:32:29 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <64ac0595-1dec-428f-8202-107c25a90773@googlegroups.com> <1c494ba8-27fa-4584-af24-c99fa0cc9821@googlegroups.com> <5aa312c4$0$25508$e4fe514c@newszilla.xs4all.nl> <5aa33dc5$0$12884$e4fe514c@newszilla.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38140 On 3/9/2018 9:07 PM, Silvio wrote: > On 10-03-18 01:20, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 3/9/2018 6:03 PM, Silvio wrote: >>> On 09-03-18 00:57, Daniele Futtorovic wrote: >>>> On 2018-03-08 22:51, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>>>> On 3/8/2018 3:32 PM, Eric Douglas wrote: >>>>>>                       Do end users need 2 separate installs? >>>>> >>>>> For development: yes. For running: not clear to me. >>>> >>>> I can't imagine they would possibly require an additional install for a >>>> user to run JavaFX apps. Especially not when having to install the JRE >>>> is already a hurdle (to Java-on-the-desktop at least) in many places. >>>> >>>> Note that they're talking about the JDK in that article, not the JRE. >>>> End users don't (need to) install the JDK. >>> >>> It's going out. JDK and JRE. >> >> JavaFX runtime being removed from JRE - has that been >> stated anywhere? > > Nowhere, other than JDK has always been a superset of JRE. > > Why on earth would they drop it from the JDK and leave it in the JRE? > That makes no sense at all. Existing install will keep running on old > JREs and new install can simply pull in the extra package. Remember that JavaFX development was added to JDK in Java 8, but JavaFX runtime was added in Java 7 update 6, so there are a bit of precedence for having runtime available but not the development kit. That does not prove that Java 11 will be similar. It just indicate that it is a possibility. Arne