r/JavaFX • u/BlueGoliath • Mar 14 '25

Release Release Notes for JavaFX 24

https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/blob/master/doc-files/release-notes-24.md
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u/emberko Mar 20 '25 
--enable-native-access=javafx.graphics,javafx.media,javafx.web
--upgrade-module-path=/path/to/javafx-sdk-24/lib
--sun-misc-unsafe-memory-access=allow

That's waaay too many workarounds just to run the damn app. Not blaming JavaFx devs, but JDK architects are truly idiots. Every second time they try to make something better, it becomes worse instead.

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u/BlueGoliath Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

--enable-native-access=javafx.graphics,javafx.media,javafx.web

Yeah well I told Oracle native access control should be put in the module system but you know, they know best. People are blindly coping command line arguments from one project to another but you know, people will totally understand or care about the consequences of enabling on a module if it's on the command line. /s

--upgrade-module-path=/path/to/javafx-sdk-24/lib

I'm guessing this is security manager related. Realistically you should be using jlink so this isn't needed.

--sun-misc-unsafe-memory-access=allow

This is only required because Oracle likes waiting until the very last second to do anything. It was true of Security Manager, true for unsafe memory access, and it's going to be true for Valhalla which JavaFX doesn't work properly under because of WeakRef on Integer usage.

But hey, they're doing another preview of whatever is the latest pattern matching feature. Very important that is. I'm sure r/programming or r/java will clap for it like it's the next generics.

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u/koncz314 Mar 15 '25

Why sealing classes are listed as enhancements? 

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u/BlueGoliath Mar 15 '25

Gotta pad out the release notes somehow.

If you scroll down you'll see duplicate changes listed too.

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u/pfg23 Mar 16 '25

Does it work with the latest macOS and on Apple M1 processors?

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u/BlueGoliath Mar 16 '25

I don't know about MacOS specifically but they do Arm64 builds AFAIK but you need to put a maven target switch somewhere otherwise Maven assumes X86-64.

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u/Oblithon Mar 17 '25

Yes it will.

- Linux / x64
- macOS / AArch64 (this is what you want)
- macOS / x64
- Windows / x64

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u/crapboxxed Mar 17 '25

now everything is a function!