Mobile options supplier Gluon has launched JavaFX 12, the corporate’s second launch of the wealthy consumer know-how for Java since JavaFX was decoupled from the JDK (Java Development Kit).
JavaFX 12 follows on Gluon’s September 2018 launch of JavaFX 11. The JavaFX 12 runtime is out there as a platform-specific SDK, as JMOD archive recordsdata, and as a set of artifacts within the Maven Central repository. Key capabilities in JavaFX 12 embody:
- New protected VirtualFlow strategies for subclassing.
- Implementation of accelerated composition for WebView.
- The addition of an API in GraphicsContext to manage image-smoothing.
- Reintroduction of the JFR (Java Flight Recorder) Pulse Logger.
- Refactoring of the javafx.swing implementation to take away an unneeded abstraction layer.
- Use of the xdg-open software to get the default net browser on Linux techniques.
- Support for mouse ahead and again buttons.
The JavaFX 12 launch additionally fixes plenty of bugs, comparable to a blurry font difficulty on Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 9, and gradual mousewheel scrolling on MacOS X. JavaFX 12 will likely be supported for six months till the discharge of JavaFX 13. JavaFX 11 is the present long-term help launch.
JavaFX is a wealthy media know-how based by Sun Microsystems in May 2007. The undertaking handed to Oracle when Oracle acquired Sun in 2010. Oracle a 12 months in the past determined to decouple JavaFX from the JDK to make it simpler to undertake and appeal to new individuals in its growth.
You can obtain JavaFX 12 from the Gluon JavaFX undertaking web site. JavaFX is licensed underneath the GPL v2 plus Classpath.
