JavaFX Maven Plugin

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

This plugin is essentially a Maven wrapper for the packaging tool that comes with JavaFX, it's called javapackager.

For easy configuration please use the old configurator: https://zenjava.net/javafx-maven-plugin/

Requirements

• Maven 3.5 (older versions might work too)
• Java Developer Kit 8 with at least Update 40 (does NOT support JKD9 or later yet)

OS-specific requirements

• (Windows) EXE installers: Inno Setup
• (Windows) MSI installers: WiX (at least version 3.7)
• (Linux) DEB installers: dpkg-deb
• (Linux) RPM installers: rpmbuild
• (Mac) DMG installers: hdiutil
• (Mac) PKG installers: pkgbuild

Quickstart for JavaFX JAR

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

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.zenjava</groupId>
    <artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>8.8.3</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.

Quickstart for JavaFX native bundle

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

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.zenjava</groupId>
    <artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>8.8.3</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.

Using SNAPSHOT-versions

When you report a bug and this got worked around, you might be able to have access to some -SNAPSHOT-version, please adjust your pom.xml:

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

Last Release Notes

Version 8.8.3 (09-feb-2017)

Bugfixes:

• fixed <launcherArguments> of secondary launchers not being set correctly (reported at the javafx-gradle-plugin)

(Not yet) Release(d) Notes

upcoming Version 8.10.0 (???-???-2021)

New:

• added a way to have PKCS11 signing by setting <skipKeypassWhileSigning>true</skipKeypassWhileSigning> and <skipKeyStoreChecking>true</skipKeyStoreChecking>, makes it possible to have hardware tokens
• added ability to prefix dependencies with their groupId by setting <prefixWithGroupIdForClasspathDependencies>true</prefixWithGroupIdForClasspathDependencies>, should work around the edge-case where dependencies have the same artifactId and would overwrite otherwise

Enhancement:

• JDK 9 compatibility (got broken with Jigsaw)
• TravisCI: use newer build machines

Documentation:

• clarified that this plugin is a wrapper, thanks to @TurekBot