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Ice 3.5b -- IceGridGUI now requires javafx
Hello all,
I was very excited to see that Ice 3.5b is released! I've been test-compiling it on Fedora, and I note that the IceGrid GUI Admin tool now uses javafx. This is unfortunately only available with the Sun JDK (JavaFX Developer Home) and the open-source version doesn't seem to be ready yet (OpenJDK: OpenJFX Project). This is unfortunate, as it means that part of the GUI (it looks like it's the un-documented "metrics views") can't be built with OpenJDK as yet.
Is this intentional? How vital are the javafx classes?
All the best,
MEF
I was very excited to see that Ice 3.5b is released! I've been test-compiling it on Fedora, and I note that the IceGrid GUI Admin tool now uses javafx. This is unfortunately only available with the Sun JDK (JavaFX Developer Home) and the open-source version doesn't seem to be ready yet (OpenJDK: OpenJFX Project). This is unfortunate, as it means that part of the GUI (it looks like it's the un-documented "metrics views") can't be built with OpenJDK as yet.
Is this intentional? How vital are the javafx classes?
All the best,
MEF
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Hello Mary Ellen,
The IceGrid Admin graphical tool (IceGridGUI) is now using JavaFX to create Metrics Graphs: see New in Ice 3.5: Ice Management eXtension and Metrics - ZeroC Documentation - ZeroC
If you like, you can modify the source code to remove this feature and the JavaFX dependency; it should be easy to do. Don't forget to add it back when OpenJFX is ready.
Cheers,
Bernard0 -
Had the same problem and created a patch
Hi Mary Ellen,
In case this is still relevant to you, I posted a patch in the ZeroC Forums:
http://www.zeroc.com/forums/patches/6096-ice-3-5-0-patch-run-icegridgui-openjdk-layout-improvements.html
Cheers,
Michael0