JarCasting
JavaFX Maven Plugin
The JavaFX Maven Plugin provides a way to assemble distribution bundles for JavaFX applications (8+ and 9+) from within Maven.
This plugin is essentially a Maven wrapper for the packaging tool that comes with JavaFX, it's called javapackager.
For easy configuration please use our new website (which needs to get updated/reworked again): http://javafx-maven-plugin.github.io
Requirements
- Maven 3.5 (older versions might work too)
- Java Developer Kit 8 with at least Update 40
OS-specific requirements
- (Windows) EXE installers: Inno Setup
- (Windows) MSI installers: WiX (at least version 3.7)
- (Linux) DEB installers: dpkg-deb
- (Linux) RPM installers: rpmbuild
- (Mac) DMG installers: hdiutil
- (Mac) PKG installers: pkgbuild
Quickstart for JavaFX JAR
Add this to your pom.xml within to your build-plugin:
<plugin>
<groupId>com.zenjava</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>8.8.3</version>
<configuration>
<mainClass>your.package.with.Launcher</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
To create your executable file with JavaFX-magic, call mvn jfx:jar. The jar-file will be placed at target/jfx/app.
Quickstart for JavaFX native bundle
Add this to your pom.xml within to your build-plugin:
<plugin>
<groupId>com.zenjava</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>8.8.3</version>
<configuration>
<vendor>YourCompany</vendor>
<mainClass>your.package.with.Launcher</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
To create your executable file with JavaFX-magic and some installers (please see official oracle-documentation which applications are required for this), call mvn jfx:native. The native launchers or installers will be placed at target/jfx/native.
Using SNAPSHOT-versions
When you report a bug and this got worked around, you might be able to have access to some -SNAPSHOT-version, please adjust your pom.xml:
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>oss-sonatype-snapshots</id>
<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
Last Release Notes
Version 8.8.3 (09-feb-2017)
Bugfixes:
- fixed
<launcherArguments>of secondary launchers not being set correctly (reported at the javafx-gradle-plugin)
(Not yet) Release(d) Notes
upcoming Version 8.9.0 (???-jan-2018)
New:
- added a way to have PKCS11 signing by setting
<skipKeypassWhileSigning>true</skipKeypassWhileSigning>and<skipKeyStoreChecking>true</skipKeyStoreChecking>, makes it possible to have hardware tokens
Enhancement:
- JDK 9 compatibility
- TravisCI: use newer build machines
Documentation:
- clarified that this plugin is a wrapper, thanks to @TurekBot
