JavaFX Maven Project
Example Maven Project for a JavaFX Application.
Update: Java 21 is now fully supported
This projects includes multiple plugins:
- Build of an App-Image using JPackage
- Use of Maven Wrapper
- Static code analysis with PMD and Spotbugs
- Check of dependency updates during build
- JavaFX plugin to start application
Requirements To use this Template, all you need is a local Java Installation. My current advice is to use a long term supported (LTS) version e.g. 11, 17 or 21.
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 pom.xml and change the settings at the start of the document to fit with your project
How to use this project
Start the application from commandline
./mvnw javafx:run
Clean up
To clean up the project, call
./mvnw clean
**build the application (Without building the application image) **
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!)
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 requires that you build a modular Java application and all dependencies providing a module description.
Static code analysis results
The static code analysis is done during the build of the application. The results can be found in
- ./target/pmd.xml
- ./target/spotbugsXml.xml