Openjfx as an extention to openjdk

[hebrewd]

I'm using the openjdk flatpaks for java development and it works great.
However, when it comes to openjfx(the openjdk equivalent for javafx) openjdk provides it as an additional package.

Is there a way to bundle openjfx in addition to the provided java runtimes provided by flathub?

[barthalion]

FYI @mbooth101, as I'm not sure if you were notified when issue was moved.

[mbooth101]

Hi, I will try to take a look and see how much work this will be.

[koppor]

@mbooth101 That would be awesome - JabRef is trying to use flatpak. Since it is using JavaFX, it would benefit from your efforts!

[mbooth101]

I've been thinking about this recently, and it could be simple to have openjfx built as a module as part of an application build.

Are you still interested in JavaFX? Jabref might be an interesting "model application" for JavaFX support.

[koppor]

@mbooth101 Sounds interesting.

A user started to create a flatpack config at JabRef/jabref#5409. That build uses our self-contained portable app. There, the runtime environment is already included.

That said, I am interested in JavaFX. Want to keep things simple :)

[Siedlerchr]

Thanks for your interest. For the newest development versions, we use jlink together with the experimental jpackage to create a custom runtime image of java + javafx and to built native binaries
https://jdk.java.net/jpackage/

[SailReal]

https://github.com/flathub/org.cryptomator.Cryptomator requires JavaFX to update to version 1.6.16.

Would be quiet awesome to have JavaFX available as module.