10 Deploy Applications and Applets

JavaFX on JDK 8 has a shorter support timeline than JDK 8. Update releases of JDK 8 after March 2028 will not include JavaFX or the javapackager tool. Please visit https://www.oracle.com/javase/javafx for more information.

Use these commands to package Java and JavaFX applications for deployment.

This section contains the following commands:

pack200: Packages a JAR file into a compressed pack200 file for web deployment.

unpack200: Transforms a packed file produced by pack200(1) into a JAR file for web deployment.

javapackager: Performs tasks related to packaging and signing Java and JavaFX applications.

javafxpackager: Deprecated. Use javapackager.