JavaFX Maven Project

Example Maven Project for a JavaFX Application.

The application is no longer a modular application so there are no problems with dependencies that are not providing a module-info.

This projects includes multiple plugins:

• Static code analysis with PMD and Spotbugs
• Check of dependency updates during build
• Build of an App-Image using JPackage
• JavaFX plugin to start application

Important All commands following should be issued in the root directoy of the project (the directory where you find the pom.xml)

Quick Start

• Simply download a zip file of this project and unzip it somewhere on your computer
• open the opm.xml and change the settings at the start of the document to fit with your project

How to use this project

build the application

To build the application, maven / the maven wrapper can be used. Simply do a ./mvnw package to build the application. (simply call mvnw instead of ./mvnw on windows!)

Clean up

To clean up the project, call ./mvnw package

Start the application from commandline ./mvnw javafx:run

Build the Image

To build the image, the profile Image must be used: ./mvnw -DImage install

Important You cannot build an image using the javafx plugin. The javafx plugin would require that you build a modular Java application and all dependencies providing a module description.

Static code analysis

The static code analysis is done when you build the application. The results can be found in

• ./target/pmx.xml
• ./target/spotbugsXml.xml