My IDE is eclipse and my project is a stand-alone javaFX application (pure CS architecture with OSGI framework).
How to use Preloader thus the preloader would be sta
IMHO a Preloader only makes sense when you are running as an applet or webstart because the preloader can be packaged as an extra Jar which is downloaded first and executed while the rest of your application is downloaded in the background.
So my suggestion would be to open a stage at the first point in time when you get a Stage and e.g. display a splash.