Deploying JavaFX Applications

About This Guide

This guide provides basic and advanced information about building, packaging, and deploying your JavaFX application. JavaFX deployment requires no special code in your application and has many other differences from Java deployment. Even if you are an advanced Java developer, it is a good idea to review the Getting Started page.

This guide contains the following topics:

• What's New

  Describes new and changed features in the current release.

• Getting Started

  This page shows you how to get a basic JavaFX application running.

• Application Execution Modes

  An introduction of the terms and concepts used in JavaFX deployment.

• Application Startup

  How users experience JavaFX application startup and how to customize the default behavior.

• Packaging Basics

  An introduction to packaging JavaFX applications.

• Self-Contained Application Packaging

  How to create self-contained application packages, which can be distributed either as zip files or as operating-system-specific installers.

• Deployment in the Browser

  Topics related to applications embedded in the browser.

• JavaFX and JavaScript

  How to make JavaFX and JavaScript communicate with each other.

• Preloaders

  Information about creating your own preloader.

• JavaFX in Swing Applications

  How to deploy Swing applications in which JavaFX is embedded.

• The JavaFX Packager Tool

  Information about Using the JavaFX Packager tool and a reference to the command line syntax.

• JavaFX Ant Tasks
  JavaFX Ant Task Reference
  JavaFX Ant Helper Parameter Reference

  Reference pages for Ant Task elements and attributes that work with the JavaFX Ant task API.

• Troubleshooting

  Basic troubleshooting tips if your first deployment efforts are not successful.