JavaFX and Maven

There is a post which discusses all the details about how to set up JavaFX in a maven project (compiling etc).

For my timefinder project I only need a solution where I can use a JavaFX-jar within my maven project. This is a little bit faster to achieve:

1. First, be sure you set up JavaFX correctly. For linux and JavaFX 1.1 you can try this.
2. Now write the following in your /home/user/.m2/settings.xml:

   <settings>
     <profiles>
       <profile>
         <id>test</id>
         <activation>
           <property>
                   <name>!javafx_home</name>
           </property>
         </activation>
           <properties>
               <!-- linux -->
                   <javafx_home>/home/user/programs/netbeans-6.5/javafx2/javafx-sdk1.0</javafx_home>
               <!-- windows
                   <javafx_home>C:\Program Files\NetBeans 6.5\javafx2\javafx-sdk</javafx_home> -->
           </properties>
        </profile>
     </profiles>
     ...
   </settings>

3. After this you can include the javafx libraries in your pom.xml:

   <project>
     ...
     <dependencies>
          ...
           <dependency>
               <groupId>com.sun.javafx.rt15</groupId>
               <artifactId>javafx-rt15</artifactId>
               <version>1.0</version>
               <scope>system</scope>
               <systemPath>${javafx_home}/lib/desktop/rt15.jar</systemPath>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
               <groupId>com.sun.javafx.gui</groupId>
               <artifactId>javafx-gui</artifactId>
               <version>1.0</version>
               <scope>system</scope>
               <systemPath>${javafx_home}/lib/desktop/javafxgui.jar</systemPath>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
               <groupId>com.sun.javafx.rt</groupId>
               <artifactId>javafx-rt</artifactId>
               <version>1.0</version>
               <scope>system</scope>
               <systemPath>${javafx_home}/lib/shared/javafxrt.jar</systemPath>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
               <groupId>com.sun.javafx.eula</groupId>
               <artifactId>javafx-eula</artifactId>
               <version>1.0</version>
               <scope>system</scope>
               <systemPath>${javafx_home}/lib/desktop/eula.jar</systemPath>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
               <groupId>com.sun.javafx.scenario</groupId>
               <artifactId>javafx-scenario</artifactId>
               <version>1.0</version>
               <scope>system</scope>
               <systemPath>${javafx_home}/lib/desktop/Scenario.jar</systemPath>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
               <groupId>com.sun.javafx.swing</groupId>
               <artifactId>javafx-swing</artifactId>
               <version>1.0</version>
               <scope>system</scope>
               <systemPath>${javafx_home}/lib/desktop/javafx-swing.jar</systemPath>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
               <groupId>com.sun.javafx.jmc</groupId>
               <artifactId>javafx-jmc</artifactId>
               <version>1.0</version>
               <scope>system</scope>
               <systemPath>${javafx_home}/lib/desktop/jmc.jar</systemPath>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
               <groupId>com.sun.javafx.websvc</groupId>
               <artifactId>javafx-websvc</artifactId>
               <version>1.0</version>
               <scope>system</scope>
               <systemPath>${javafx_home}/lib/desktop/websvc.jar</systemPath>
           </dependency>
           <dependency>
               <groupId>com.sun.javafx.scriptapi</groupId>
               <artifactId>javafx-scriptapi</artifactId>
               <version>1.0</version>
               <scope>system</scope>
               <systemPath>${javafx_home}/lib/desktop/script-api.jar</systemPath>
           </dependency>
           <!-- The javafx dependencies are taken from the profiles/desktop.properties file-->
       </dependencies>
   </project>

4. That’s it! Now you should be able to use javafx or javafx-components in you fancy application. In the most cases you might be interested in one of my previous posts, which discusses how to embed a javafx-component into an existing Swing-application.