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: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:08:43 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 23 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> <5aa3fc29$0$1882$e4fe514c@newszilla.xs4all.nl> <1308291b-7786-4d5f-be3e-fd20d9310b68@googlegroups.com> 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:38174 On 3/13/2018 9:57 AM, Eric Douglas wrote: > On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 9:50:52 AM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> "Oracle will not include Java Web Start in Java SE 11 (18.9 LTS) and later." > > Not include means it's a separate download or there will be no > existing version that works with 11? The wording later in the text seem to indicate the latter. From Oracle. Maybe an open source project will evolve to fill the gap. "Maybe". > If the latter, than webstart users > just can't allow Java newer than 10 (or 8?) until an equivalent > alternative is available. 8 and 11 are LTS. 9 and 10 are not LTS. So 8 may be best. Arne