JavaFX deployment library not found in active JDK

Question

I am migrating to OpenJDK 11 and OpenJFX 11. I have successfully built both from the source, and as per the OpenJFX wiki used the --with-import-modules=[path_to_modular_sdk]

Answer 1

It's a problem with Netbeans 9. I had used the Sun JDK, now Oracle JDK for many years with netbeans. In Netbeans 7.2 there was an option to manually add JFX jar files. Then, JFX was embedded into Oracle JDK8, and that option isn't available now. Some weeks ago I was informed that Oracle JDK won't be free anymore on next year, so I started to migrate to Open JDK10 and I'm having the same issue that you. That's because Open JFX is not embedded into Open JDK. If you try with Oracle JDK11 which already is GA, you won't have any issue building JFX apps. The issue is when you set in NetBeans as Java Platform an Open JDK, it expects to JFX to be inside the JDK itself, but Netbeans won't ask you for a JFX folder or something like it did in earlier versions.