Preferred way to test custom builds with latest JDK 8 binaries

Mon Feb 4 12:51:26 PST 2013

Yes that worked.
So this is what does the trick:
-Xbootclasspath/a:pathToOpenJFX/dist/openjfxrt.jar:pathToJDK8/jre/libs/ext/jfxrt.jar
-Sven
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Kevin Rushforth
<kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>wrote:
> **
> > Should the openjfxrt.jar be a drop in replacement for jfxrt.jar already?
>> No, it isn't (and won't be for a few months). If you put openjfxrt.jar and
> jfxrt.jar on the boot classpath with -Xbootclasspath/a does that work? I
> would expect that it should.
>>> -- Kevin
>>> Sven Reimers wrote:
>> Just tried it, but it tells me
>> ClassNotFoundException com/sun/javafx/tk/quantum/QuantumToolkit
>> and because of this I think
>> RuntimeException: No Toolkit found
>> I think this is because this is still not open sourced and as such
> missing in my openjfxrt.jar..
>> Should the openjfxrt.jar be a drop in replacement for jfxrt.jar already?
>> Thanks for your help
>> -Sven
>>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Kevin Rushforth <
> kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> > -prepending bootclasspath: does not work classloading fails
>>>> I would suggest appending openjfxrt.jar to the bootclasspath (there is a
>> known bug when prepending...I'll dig up the bug ID if you are interested).
>>>> -- Kevin
>>>>>>>> Sven Reimers wrote:
>>>> Update:
>>>> I tried so far:
>>>> -endorsed: does not work classloading fails
>> -prepending bootclasspath: does not work classloading fails
>>>> So it seems I need to have the ability to create full jfxrt.jar else both
>> approaces fail.
>>>> So any ideas besides creating a local copy of my jdk and patching the
>> original jfxrt.jar in some way to incorporate my changes?
>>>> Thanks
>>>> -Sven
>>>>>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Sven Reimers <sven.reimers at gmail.com> <sven.reimers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>> since the latest binaries (b75) now have JavaFX on it's classpath by
>> default, I am interested in the best (quick) way to test changes using
>> custom builds with openjfxrt.jar.
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>> -Sven
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