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		MaxBarraclough on July 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RedHat Mandrel Makes Java Native How about GUI? Does JavaFX rely on dynamic classloading? (I presume so, given its XML-driven approach.) If so, would it be possible to refactor it away? Or perhaps introduce a preprocessing phase of some sort?

vips7L on July 3, 2020 [–]

Gluon put out substrate which is supposed to do this:

https://github.com/gluonhq/substrate

MaxBarraclough on July 3, 2020 | [–]

Great that this is in the works.

Do you know about its workings?

vips7L on July 3, 2020 | | [–]

I do not, other than it's based on GraalVM native image. I just know of its existence. I believe this is how gluon is pushing crossplatform for iOS since apple doesn't like the JVM JIT.

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