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 (which needs to get updated/reworked again): 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For (outdated) documentation/examples, your can look at archived website: https://web.archive.org/web/20141009064442/http://zenjava.com/javafx/maven/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>8.8.3</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.

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.

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>

This is currently heavily outdated

Add repository in your pom.xml for snapshot-versions of this plugin (see above) and 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aren't present in that branch yet, deployment of new "-SNAPSHOT"-version are on-demand This is currently heavily outdated

Version 8.8.3 (09-feb-2017)

Bugfixes:

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

upcoming Version 8.8.4 (???-2017)

nothing changed yet