4 Replies Latest reply on Sep 19, 2013 6:07 PM by jsmith

Installed 1.7.0_40 and can't start any apps built previously.

KPenrose Sep 18, 2013 8:25 PM

I installed the u40 release today, and I use NetBeans 7.3 as my development environment. After I tried to build a couple of projects against the new release, and finding I couldn't run them from within NetBeans (java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._invokeLater(Ljava/lang/Runnable;), I went back to u25 and I was able to build and run from within NetBeans. But then I went to try to run some previously built applications (built against u25) and they won't run at all. I'm thinking it might have something to do with the packaging, but I don't know, and I'm not even sure how to find out what the problem is.

This is critical, because in my company some users may update their version of java, and if they do, my applications will cease to work.

My projects are maven projects, and I use the zenjava javafx-maven-plugin to package the apps.

TIA,

--Kevin

1. Re: Installed 1.7.0_40 and can't start any apps built previously.

Dave Develop Sep 18, 2013 11:48 PM (in response to KPenrose)

I had the same problem in Eclipse. But then I realized I have manually added jfxrt.jar to my build path because I can't get it working with Maven.
I updated the jar in my project, and its working now
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2. Re: Installed 1.7.0_40 and can't start any apps built previously.

KPenrose Sep 19, 2013 12:22 PM (in response to Dave Develop)

Thanks for your reply, however, I had already removed the dependency on my locally installed javafx runtime. I'm still leaning toward it being a problem with the zenjava maven plugin. I will try to contact the author for more information.
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3. Re: Installed 1.7.0_40 and can't start any apps built previously.

KPenrose Sep 19, 2013 6:01 PM (in response to KPenrose)

I found a solution to my problems here: http://blog.maurus.be/2012/12/02/javafx-and-maven/

By changing my pom to point at the local jfxrt.jar file instead of the one that was in the com.oracle repository, I was able to build apps that I can run stand-alone and against older version of the java jre. But then I couldn't run inside of netbeans, so the link above gives information on how to fix that problem. It has to do with exec-maven-plugin omits adding the system-scope dependencies to the classpath. Adding the location of the jfxrt.jar file to the bootclasspath. Hopefully this will help others who are suddenly facing the same problem.
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4. Re: Installed 1.7.0_40 and can't start any apps built previously.

jsmith Sep 19, 2013 6:07 PM (in response to KPenrose)

@KPenrose

I'd still encourage you to follow up with the zenjava plugin owner. The zenjava plugin is quite popular and if it doesn't work for later JavaFX versions, it should be fixed.
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