JavaFX Jar Deployment

  • rcc
Posted: Wed, 08/11/2010 - 08:03

Does anyone know a good way to deploy a jar from a JavaFX project?

I've successfully built a jar using the command-line javafxpackager (from the JavaFX 1.3 sdk) and run it on another machine, but with a larger project and complicated classpath, that is a cumbersome solution. I haven't found anything relevant in the plugin documentation/forum or Eclipse plugin menus, but is there a simpler way that harnesses the Eclipse project's classpath?

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When deploying from plug-in,

  • maxkatz
  • 02/17/10
  • Wed, 08/11/2010 - 08:55
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When deploying from plug-in, look in workspace//dist - that folder contains everything you need to deploy the application. Hope this helps.

I must be missing something

  • rcc
  • 08/02/10
  • Thu, 08/12/2010 - 09:39
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I must be missing something important, because I don't know what you mean by "When deploying from plug-in". I have a project I created with the Desktop profile and I set the run configuration to run it as an Application. I can run the app within Eclipse with no problems, but I've got no dist folder in the workspace, just the class files in the bin folder. So you mean something else by deployment?

I meant launching the JavaFX

  • maxkatz
  • 02/17/10
  • Thu, 08/12/2010 - 09:52
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I meant launching the JavaFX application from Eclipse. You can right-click JavaFX script and select Run As->JavaFX Application (Web Start). It will create a folder called dest in workspace/project-name/. That's the folder from where the application is running.

Thanks. I hadn't tried a Web

  • rcc
  • 08/02/10
  • Thu, 08/12/2010 - 10:22
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Thanks. I hadn't tried a Web Start. That created the dest folder with the jars I was looking for. FYI: it failed to run the app.

Unable to launch the application: com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: http://dl.javafx.com/1.3/javafx-rt-windows-i586__V1.3.1_b101.jar

with Wrapped Exception: java.util.zip.ZipException: ZIP file must have at least one entry

But I've got what I needed, thanks again.