Classes removed in JDK9 GroovyFX

[russel]

The following classes are in GroovyFX 8 but not in GroovyFX 9:

javafx.scene.NodeBuilder
com.sun.javafx.css.parser.CSSParser
com.sun.javafx.css.Stylesheet
javafx.scene.paint.RadialGradientBuilder
javafx.scene.paint.RadialGradientBuilder
com.sun.javafx.css.parser.CSSParser
javafx.scene.paint.LinearGradientBuilder
com.sun.javafx.css.Stylesheet
javafx.scene.paint.LinearGradientBuilder
javafx.scene.chart.XYChartBuilder
javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayerBuilder
javafx.scene.NodeBuilder
javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayerBuilder
javafx.scene.SceneBuilder
MediaPlayerBuilder
SceneBuilder

[chriswhocodes]

Hi Russell,

Did some investigation into this at the AdoptOpenJDK hackday.

My best read on this is that GroovyFX / JDK9 issues are due to Oracle dropping support for the JavaFX SceneBuilder.

SceneBuilder has been picked up by Gluon: http://gluonhq.com/gluon-supports-scene-builder/ and http://gluonhq.com/open-source/scene-builder/

Unfortunately it's not a drop-in library replacement and the old SceneBuilder API no longer exists (Gluon do provide a SceneBuilder "Kit" download for API access) so I think there's some refactoring needed for GroovyFX to work in a post JDK9 world.

Source code for the Gluon SceneBuilder work is https://bitbucket.org/gluon-oss/scenebuilder

I think https://twitter.com/johanvos is the guy to speak to about this.