Loading OpenJFX-Modules 11 in OSGi

[tomsontom]

OpenJFX-Modules will not be shipped in the JRE but need to be added to module-path. We need to find a strategy to install the OpenFX-Binaries at runtime.

[klaraward]

Early access builds of OpenJFX- http://jdk.java.net/openjfx/

[eliasvasylenko]

The first Maven snapshots are now available: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2018-July/022088.html

They are not shipped with OSGi metadata. In the (likely?) event that they're not interested in adding it, I assume it's just a matter of wrapping and republishing as a p2 artefact somewhere?

[tomsontom]

That won't help! JavaFX is designed to run on the module-path, while it might work on the classpath there's no guarantee that it will in future.

[eliasvasylenko]

Surely this is true of any external dependencies packaged as modules. But until perhaps the next OSGi release specifies a strategy for JPMS interoperation, or unless Eclipse already has a general strategy planned for this, what choice is there?

Recreating the module metadata as bundle metadata will probably work. And if it stops working at some point in the future, that can be dealt with in the future, no?

[tomsontom]

We are already spinning up a virtual layer for swtfx.jar I think that's the way to go for plain OpenJFX on Java 11 onwards as well.