Include icon in Self-Contained JavaFX application

Question

I\'ve been fighting with this for over a day and have read many posts on SO and other places, but I\'m still having problems.

I need to include my application icon i

Answer 1

For folks who are already using Maven to build a jar, building a native app and including an icon is easy with the javafx-maven-plugin. (I found it via this answer.)

The plugin developers have provided a nice little auto-configuration script. I had to add a key, but then everything worked smoothly.

Once you have that working, all you have to do to get a custom icon is create a correctly-formatted file, give it exactly the same name as the native app, and drop it in the correct folder for the given system:

• Windows: put some ICO-file at src/main/deploy/package/windows/{appname}.ico, where {appname} is the configured appname of your application
• Mac OS(X): put some ICNS-file at src/main/deploy/package/macosx/{appname}.icns, where {appname} is the configured appname of your application
• Linux: put some PNG-file at src/main/deploy/package/linux/{appname}.png, where {appname} is the configured appname of your application

(The text above was copied from this issue.)

I've tested this on both Windows and Mac, and it works in both cases.