[CentOS] JavaFX on C7 ?

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 02:11:42PM +0000, Denniston, Todd A CIV USN NSWC CD CRANE ID (USA) wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2019-05-12 at 21:52 -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > I'm getting:
> > >
> > > Error: JavaFX runtime components are missing, and are required to run
> > > this application
> > >
> <SNIP>
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3299701
> > 
> > You can always use Oracles Java if you wish.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Phil
> <SNIP>
> 
> A somewhat more accessible answer is at [1], though it is a bit depressing:
> "Does Red Hat's OpenJDK distribution included JavaFX?
> No. Red Hat does not have plans to deliver JavaFX or the OpenJFX project in our distribution."
> 
> I thought JavaFX/openJFX was integrated into openjdk-11 (actually 9 according to the openjdk site), so I expected to see something along the lines of 'not in JDK8, but included standard with JDK11'.  The above statement suggests they did not even build it into 11 on RHEL7 [2], and possibly not even on RHEL8.  It might be interesting to know why... could it be a combo similar to [5] and not wanting to drop $2M/year on the MPEGLA cabal to do like Cisco[4]? 
> 
> I have been told that getting javafx to build, on EL, is quite a bit of pain and thus have not tried it myself.  Though I have been eyeing the work over at [3] wondering how much grief it would be to start with that, port it to 11 and try to use it with cisco's h264[4] instead of ffmpeg[5].
> 
> In the meantime, it looks like if we really need JFX, we will have to stoop down to the Oracle version and the maintenance fun that brings.
> 

Do I conclude that you don't expect the openjfx bits to work in El7?

Fred

> Hope this helps, and please let us know if you find a better or workable way[6] before we do.
> 
> [1] https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013#FAQ
> [2] confirmed by Fred Smith, when he opened this thread.
> [3] https://github.com/atejeda/openjfx-el
> [4] https://www.openh264.org/
> [5] I need it to work, but I need it unquestionably legal.  I may disagree with Patents on math and logic, but they are legal in the country I work in, and thus must not be breached when working for its government.  AFAIK some of the needed stuff in ffmpeg is still covered.
> [6] besides ditching the javafx portions of the program, which is what I am truly considering.
> 
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