JavaFX 19 (opens in new tab)

Would be really awesome if JavaFX could work together with GraalVM and Clojure. Then I'd be in "desktop application development" nirvana, when I can ship binaries to all platforms and build the application itself with cljfx (https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx).

Once every ~6 months for the last 2 years or something I've given it a try but there is always something broken or missing. Not sure what the status is right now.

I’ve seen a lot of movement in FX lately but lesser and lesser desktop apps coming out for Java specifically after electron apps picked up. Who here plans to use Java for their next consumer desktop app?

Setting up the JavaFX development environment for anything post-JDK8 was incredibly difficult. I was recently tasked with creating an internal GUI application and re-visited JavaFX development after a few years' absence from the space.

I have to say, IntelliJ has come a long way. I was able to create a new JavaFX project from template and the magic green "Run" button worked out of the box. If you've previously been off-put by the difficulty in getting up and running with JavaFX, it's worth it to take another look since some of the improvements by IntelliJ. It feels a lot like the JDK8 days.

So this makes me wonder: how common is desktop app development with Java these days? I imagine there is still a lot done for internal app, but is it still viable to ship Java apps to end users? How you handle JRE distribution in that case?

Anyway also wanna shout out Dear ImGui[0]. I've been using it recently to build an interactive UI to quite complicated networking code. So far it been great for manual testing and demos, and it's fairly low maintenance once running.

[0] https://github.com/SpaiR/imgui-java

I'm not found about AWT, Swing and JavaFX. Including a UI-Toolkit within the base-library of a programming language seems like a mistake. It doesn't integrate well. It is not usable for other programming languages. And support for font-rendering, acceleration, HighDPI or Wayland is problematic. I've to maintain a small Swing based application and I don't appreciate it.

How long can you keep the term 'next generation' on your homepage and not trigger ridicule? Given the project is over a decade old, you gotta wonder what it considers 'current generation'.

I've had an interest in using JavaFX multiple times for several projects over the years, it looks great, you get you use Java, and you can ship on all the platforms. I think the biggest problem I've had with it in the past is getting development up and running using a standard IDE like IntelliJ. Setting up JavaFX is confusing for beginners. There aren't a lot of great tutorials out there and the versions are especially confusing.

Which version of Java should I have installed? Which version of JavaFX should I have? How do I get them both installed and working nicely inside of my preferred development environment? I'm not saying it's very difficult, but there is a lack of easy material for beginners looking to start coding. Or at least there was the last time I tried to use it for a project.

My biggest question today, since it's "java day" (jakarta, FX, and NetBeans stories today), is where do folks "talk" about this today.

Conversations, musings, etc.

SO is limited by their Q&A structure. Most of the mailing lists I've subscribed to are dead. I don't do Reddit, but even there /r/java doesn't quite seem right.

I just don't know which bar the java geeks hang out in nowadays.

I'd really like to just "talk" Java FX with some folks somewhere.

So, I click on "Documentation" in the top menu, then on "API Documentation" under reference documentation, and I get a 404?

Does javafx have any CDI integration for event handling or window management? That’d be the holy grail for me.

Found release notes: https://gluonhq.com/products/javafx/openjfx-19-release-notes...

Mostly bugfixes.

I cannot find anything regarding JavaFX 19 in the current link

Shouldn't the link be https://openjfx.io/highlights/19/ ?

There's a quicker intro here to get a flavour of JavaFX https://www.vojtechruzicka.com/javafx-fxml-scene-builder/