Error: Could not find or load main class application.Main Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javafx/application/Application JDK 11

Question

I am stuck at a very basic problem. I have created a simple hello world program using JavaFX which works fine on JDK 1.8. But when I switch to JDK-11 it throws following exc

Answer 1

I had a similar error when executing a java application, I could not find some packages already installed, I located the path where the application was reading and there I added a symbolic link to the javafx library that I had installed.

Example:

user@server:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/openjfx/lib/javafx.properties