The JavaFX Maven Plugin provides a way to assemble distribution bundles for JavaFX applications (8+) from within Maven.

For easy configuration please use our new website (currently getting updated/reworked): http://javafx-maven-plugin.github.io

For (outdated) documentation/examples, your can look at archived website: https://web.archive.org/web/20141009064442/http://zenjava.com/javafx/maven/

Add this to your pom.xml within to your build-plugin:

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.zenjava</groupId>
    <artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>8.5.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <mainClass>your.package.with.Launcher</mainClass>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

To create your executable file with JavaFX-magic, call mvn jfx:jar. The jar-file will be placed at target/jfx/app.

Add this to your pom.xml within to your build-plugin:

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.zenjava</groupId>
    <artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>8.5.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <vendor>YourCompany</vendor>
        <mainClass>your.package.with.Launcher</mainClass>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

To create your executable file with JavaFX-magic and some installers (please see official oracle-documentation which applications are required for this), call mvn jfx:native. The native launchers or installers will be placed at target/jfx/native.

Add repository in your pom.xml for snapshot-versions of this plugin:

<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>oss-sonatype-snapshots</id>
        <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/</url>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
        </snapshots>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

Set version to new SNAPSHOT-version:

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.zenjava</groupId>
    <artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>9.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <configuration>
        <!-- your configuration -->
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Some notes: as this isn't the main branch, a lot of features aren't present in that branch yet, deployment of new "-SNAPSHOT"-version are on-demand This is currently heavily outdated and will be updated June 2016

Version 8.5.0 (30-May-2016)

Bugfixes:

• updated workaround-detection for creating native bundles without JRE, because it got fixed by latest Oracle JDK 1.8.0u92
• added workaround for native linux launcher inside native linux installer bundle (DEB and RPM) not working, see issue #205 for more details on this (it's a come-back of the issue 124)

New:

• added ability to write and use custom bundlers! This makes it possible to customize the work which is required for your bundling-process.
• added new property to disable "native linux launcher inside native linux installer"-fix <skipNativeLauncherWorkaround205>true</skipNativeLauncherWorkaround205>

Improvements:

• added IT-project "23-simple-custom-bundler"
• added IT-project "24-simple-custom-bundler-failed", which fails to use custom bundler, but does not fail (normal behaviour)
• added IT-projects regarding workaround for issue 205 (currenty they do nothing, I still need to write some verify-beanshell files)
• moved workarounds and workaround-detection into its own class (makes it a bit easier to concentrate on the main work inside NativeMojo)

upcoming Version 8.5.1 (???-2016)

• nothing changed yet